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Desmond vs Desmoid - What's the difference?

desmond | desmoid |

As nouns the difference between desmond and desmoid

is that desmond is a lower second class honours or 22 degree while desmoid is a desmoid tumour.

As an adjective desmoid is

pertaining to a bundle.

desmond

English

Proper noun

(en proper noun)
  • An Irish surname, anglicised from Ó Deasmhumhnaigh " a man from South Munster".
  • derived from the surname; popular in Britain in the first half of the twentieth century.
  • * 1988 , Joey's Case , ISBN 0892963476, page 132:
    • I call him Bradford because it makes me feel like I'm in a soap opera. That's what they name men on soap operas. Bradford and Desmond and Elliott and Royce.
    English surnames from Irish

    desmoid

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Pertaining to a bundle.
  • (pathology) Fibrous; having closely interwoven fibres in bundles.
  • (medicine) Resembling, or having the characteristics of, a ligament or fibre; ligamentous, fibrous.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A desmoid tumour.

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