Author of the classic Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert famously declared: âTo be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.â. Albert Schweitzer said âHappiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.â.
1 A gross refers to a group of 144 items (a dozen dozen or a square dozen).  A great gross refers to a group of 1728 items (a dozen gross or a cubic dozen).
Grossly normal means that the larger picture is normal. In medical terminology there is fine and gross. Gross is the larger picture which fine tends to be smaller . It has nothing to do with the term as we know it 'gross'. Actually the definition of gross in the dictionary is overall, total.