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n. - Something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings.

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  • Mullins 'Planet swelled in gibbosity, bright and blue-green under the clouds.
  • Here is some further information from the creators of the project: The shape of site is transformed into the gibbosity.
  • The vertebrae of the spine when contracted into a hump behind from disease, for the most part cannot be remedied, more especially when the gibbosity is above the...
  • And when the gibbosity occurs in youth before the body has attained its full growth, in these cases the body does not usually grow along the spine, but the legs and the...
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