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  • And Mark Spigelman of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem responds, “a gibbus malformation of his spine typical of … TB vertebral body collapse.”

    TB or not TB 2009

  • Obstruction (_oppilatio_) of the liver or enfraxis is defined as a disease of the canals (_pori_), of which four are enumerated, to-wit, the meseraic, that of the convexity of the organ (_gibbus -- ubi sunt exitus capillarium venarum_), the duct leading to the gall-bladder and that leading to the spleen.

    Gilbertus Anglicus Medicine of the Thirteenth Century Henry Ebenezer Handerson

  • One of these Brehm terms the ` white-headed gibbous swan '(_Cygnus gibbus_).

    The Young Voyageurs Boy Hunters in the North Mayne Reid 1850

  • E. ovatus gibbus j arobulacris quinis deprcflii, Mmf. Uir.

    Caroli a Linné ... Systema naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis .. 1788

  • _ -- In cases in which the angular projection or gibbus, as it is called by continental authors, is of recent origin, it may be corrected by the method so successfully employed by Calot of Berck-sur-Mer -- a plaster jacket is accurately moulded to the trunk, and a diamond-shaped window is cut in the jacket opposite the gibbus; a series of layers of cotton-wool are then applied, one on top of the other, so as to exert firm pressure on the gibbus, a plaster or elastic webbing bandage being employed to retain them and reinforce the pressure.

    Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. Alexander Miles 1893

  • (this condition is caused due to abnormal skull structure development), overcrowding and misalignment (malocclusion) of the teeth, abnormal teeth orientation etc. as a result of abnormal skull structure development, bow legs (Genu Varum), shortening of arms and legs, improper development of elbow extension, development of Thoracolumbar gibbus, deformed bones of hands and legs etc. are the physical conditions which are related to achondroplasia.

    unknown title 2009

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