#initial-load-header-loader { visibility: hidden!important; } #initial-load-content { visibility: visible!important; } .expandable .expandable-control { display: none!important; } .expandable .expandable-content { display: block!important; visibility: visible!important; max-height: none!important; height: auto!important; }

gibbosity

[gi-bos-i-tee]

|

SEE MORE SYNONYMS FOR gibbosity ON THESAURUS.COM

noun

the state of being gibbous.

a protuberance or swelling.

Origin of gibbosity

1350–1400; Middle English < Middle French gibbosite < Medieval Latin gibbōsitāt- (stem of gibbōsitās). See gibbous, -ity

Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019

Related Words for gibbosity

wart, lump, nodule, projection, bump, swelling, promontory, growth, excrescence, dilation, bunch, protrusion, salient, hump, sac, blob, distention, protuberance, jut, excess

Examples from the Web for gibbosity

Historical Examples of gibbosity

Behind the neck and immediately above the shoulder rises a gibbosity or hump of the same height as the dorsal ridge.
Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon
Robert A. Sterndale

British Dictionary definitions for gibbosity

gibbosity

noun plural -ties rare

the state of being gibbous

biology a bulge or protuberance

Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

gibbosity in Medicine

gibbosity

[gĭ-bŏs′ĭ-tē]

n.

The condition of being gibbous.

A rounded hump or protuberance.

The American Heritage® Stedman's Medical Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company.