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Noun: kyphosis  kI'fow-sis
  1. An abnormal backward curve to the vertebral column
    - humpback, hunchback
     
  2. The property of having an abnormal convex curvature in the cervical or lumbar regions of the spine.

Type of: gawkiness, spinal curvature, ungainliness

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