crookback
a person whose back is hunched because of abnormal curvature of the upper spine • Syn: humpback, hunchback • Hypernyms: cripple
characteristic of or suffering from kyphosis, an abnormality of the vertebral column • Syn: crookbacked, humped, humpbacked, hunchbacked, gibbous, kyphotic • Similar to: unfit • Derivationally related forms: kyphosis (for: kyphotic), gibbousness (for: gibbous), gibbosity (for: gibbous)
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