Medical term:
kurtosis
kurtosis
[ker-to´sis]the degree of peakedness or flatness of a probability distribution, relative to the normal distribution with the same variance. See illustration.

Kurtosis. From Dorland's, 2000.
Miller-Keane Encyclopedia and Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing, and Allied Health, Seventh Edition. © 2003 by Saunders, an imprint of Elsevier, Inc. All rights reserved.
kur·to·sis
(kŭr-tō'sis),The extent to which a unimodal distribution is peaked.
[G., an arching]
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