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Meanings of gibbous in English
Characteristic of or suffering from kyphosis, an abnormality of the vertebral column.
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Examples for "humped"
Examples for "humped"
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A humped grey shape emerged, wide arms brushing aside thickets of saplings.
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I groped my way across the kitchen and humped into the table.
3
The camel suddenly humped his back, and the gasps turned to shrieks.
4
Behind three humped rocks, a scarlet sorceress ambled on the valley floor.
5
That and five horses humped tail to the driving wind, stolidly enduring.
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Now another character entered-this a hunchbacked sibling of Pulcinella's-and summarily beheaded Donkey-Dick.
2
Another of the hunchbacked creatures dropped from above and slammed into him.
3
Nothing had remained real but Stornham and Nigel and the little hunchbacked baby.
4
It gave the cabin an odd unfinished look, a hunchbacked look.
5
Her hunchbacked sister stood by the hearth, staring toward the threshold.
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She crossed the river, stopping for a moment on the humpbacked bridge.
2
But we have been betrayed by a pot-bellied, humpbacked, and crabbed dwarf.
3
Distorted, humpbacked and barrel-chested, it scuttled on reed-thin legs to Goat's side.
4
Why... they're little men... with long hair and funny clothes... and humpbacked.
5
It was she who rescued me, General, she and the little humpbacked man.
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I know he dislikes those with deformities, for all his fool Will Somers is a crookback.
2
The words 'crookback lawyer's clerk' still rankled.
3
The interior of the square was a maze of stalls and crookback aisles, shaded by awnings of woven grass.
4
You, the crookback lawyer!'
5
All that way the plains are as full of crookback oxen (buffaloes) as the mountain Serena in Spain is of sheep.
1
One case showed a 15 degrees kyphotic angle in the proximal adjacent segment.
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The kyphotic angles were measured using the Cobb technique.
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However, kyphotic women had no greater back pain, disability caused by back problems, or poorer health.
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Conclusion: We describe a rare adjacent segment kyphotic condition in a young man with SMA Type II.
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The kyphotic angulation was restored from 10.14 degrees to 2.32 degrees.
1
But this man had been crookbacked and hideous, and he looked as though he might have lice.
Usage of gibbous in English
1
Above, a hazy gibbous moon tried to break free of the clouds.
2
He leant out of his window, and looked at the gibbous moon.
3
It was a crisp evening, the gibbous moon illuminating a busy street.
4
The moon overhead was gibbous, and there were no clouds in the sky.
5
One or two revealed gibbous, then crescent forms before they faded behind me.
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Under the stars, under the gibbous moon, assuredly they would sleep.
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The gibbous moon was directly overhead, and shone down upon her with unobstructed fullness.
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Plus those sweat half-moons had grown from gibbous to full.
9
The waxing gibbous moon shone down on the house.
10
Slivers of pale light trickled among the dull gibbous braids, an infestation of torpid static.
11
All three moons were out, gibbous, and gloriously bright.
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An orange gibbous moon was low in the sky, cloaked by a veil of fog.
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It was gibbous, slightly more than half-full, and she suddenly realized it was dark out.
14
The gibbous moon still hangs in the sky and casts a feeble light over the scene.
15
Cells ovoid, gibbous, much contracted towards the mouth.
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Overhead, a gibbous moon meandered through the clouds.
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