How To Use Kyphosis In A Sentence
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It was just a kyphosis, of course, with a patch of teratoma that had two fingers, four teeth, and a thick loop of lower intestine.
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The symptoms of kyphosis may resemble other spinal conditions or deformities, or may be a result of an injury or infection.
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The term 'crookback' was certainly used to describe the outward-bending spinal condition of kyphosis.
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Patients develop thoracic kyphosis and lumbar lordosis as vertebral height is lost.
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If anyone in your family had osteoporosis (including your mother, father and sisters), or broke a bone when they were over 50 following a trivial injury, or had a kyphosis (a hump on the upper back), then your risk rises.
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Patients with postural kyphosis can generally correct the kyphosis by making a conscious effort to do so.
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In cases of kyphosis it is a mistake to try to straighten the spine.
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For example, there is some concern that interspinous devices may lead to kyphosis, but to date there are no data to suggest that kyphosis develops and this will only be proven or disproven over time.
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The first of these curvatures is called kyphosis, in which the curvature is posterior; second, lordosis, in which the curvature is anterior; third, scoliosis, in which it is lateral, to the right or left.
Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
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A similar but less marked type of kyphosis may follow upon compression fracture of the spine -- in the condition known as traumatic spondylitis; and as a result of other lesions, such as osteomalacia, or malignant disease, in which the bodies undergo softening and yield, so that the spinous processes project posteriorly.
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Chronic use of heels can result -- and usually does -- in some degree of kyphosis-lordosis and related pains in the lower back and mid-upper back.
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d. presence of deformity in form of kyphosis or kyphoscoliosis.
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However, a spine affected by kyphosis shows evidence of a forward curvature of the back bones (vertebrae) in the upper back area, giving the child a "humpback" appearance.
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Total lumbar lordosis (L1-S1), thoracic kyphosis (T5-T12), sacral slope, thoracolumbar angle (T11-L1), and sagittal vertical axis (SVA) were measured on the lateral view of the whole spine.
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The circumference of the trunk at the nipples was 62 inches, and over the most prominent portion of the kyphosis and pigeon-breast, 74 inches.
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Scoliosis, kyphosis, tumors, back pain, spondylolysis | The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Scoliosis, kyphosis, tumors, back pain, spondylolysis
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Kyphosis is a progressive disorder that can affect children or adults in the thoracic or cervical spine.
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His lung exam was significant for limited chest excursion, but he did not have obvious kyphosis or scoliosis.
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Paré gives a case of reversion, and of crooked hands and feet; and Barlow 11.54 speaks of a child of two and three-quarter years with kyphosis, but mobility of the lumbar region, which walked on its elbows and knees.
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This, in turn, leads to a flexed section of spine and a pronounced "kyphosis" - a curve in the lower back - creating the hunched posture that you have noticed.
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