noun
- A person whose back is hunched because of abnormal curvature of the upper spine.
adjective
- Characteristic of or suffering from kyphosis, an abnormality of the vertebral column.
- synonyms: crookbacked, humped, humpbacked, hunchbacked, gibbous, kyphotic
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