Mullins 'Planet swelled in gibbosity, bright and blue-green under the clouds. From Wordnik.com. [Asimov's Science Fiction]
Here is some further information from the creators of the project: The shape of site is transformed into the gibbosity. From Wordnik.com. [Rooftecture in Japan] Reference
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 attachment of the diaphragm to the spine. From Wordnik.com. [On The Articulations] Reference
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 arms are fully developed, whilst the parts (about the back) are arrested in their development. From Wordnik.com. [On The Articulations] Reference
From this frame of body, such persons appear to have appear to have more prominent necks than persons in good health, and they generally have hard and unconcocted tubercles in the lungs, for the gibbosity and the distension are produced mostly by such tubercles, with which the neighboring nerves communicate. From Wordnik.com. [On The Articulations] Reference
Behind the neck and immediately above the shoulder rises a gibbosity or hump of the same height as the dorsal ridge. From Wordnik.com. [Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon] Reference
So if any one should say, "one may sit upon a horse safer than on a camel," my abstract idea of the two animals includes only an outline of the level back of the one, and the gibbosity on the back of the other. From Wordnik.com. [Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference
Thus when a tree is the object of sight, a part of the retina resembling a flat branching figure is stimulated by various shades of colours; but it is by suggestion, that the gibbosity of the tree, and the moss, that fringes its trunk, appear before us. From Wordnik.com. [Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference
"I do hope you'll be better to-morrow," she said, and she commiserated with Anne on all she had missed -- the garden, the stars, the scent of flowers, the meteorites through whose summer shower the earth was now passing, the rising moon and its gibbosity. From Wordnik.com. [Crome Yellow] Reference
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