A person whose back is hunched because of abnormal curvature of the upper spine.
Characteristic of or suffering from kyphosis, an abnormality of the vertebral column.
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Examples for "humped "
1 A humped grey shape emerged, wide arms brushing aside thickets of saplings.
2 I groped my way across the kitchen and humped into the table.
3 The camel suddenly humped his back, and the gasps turned to shrieks.
4 Behind three humped rocks, a scarlet sorceress ambled on the valley floor.
5 That and five horses humped tail to the driving wind, stolidly enduring.
1 Now another character entered-this a hunchbacked sibling of Pulcinella's-and summarily beheaded Donkey-Dick.
2 Another of the hunchbacked creatures dropped from above and slammed into him.
3 Nothing had remained real but Stornham and Nigel and the little hunchbacked baby.
4 It gave the cabin an odd unfinished look, a hunchbacked look.
5 Her hunchbacked sister stood by the hearth, staring toward the threshold.
1 She crossed the river, stopping for a moment on the humpbacked bridge.
2 But we have been betrayed by a pot-bellied, humpbacked , and crabbed dwarf.
3 Distorted, humpbacked and barrel-chested, it scuttled on reed-thin legs to Goat's side.
4 Why... they're little men... with long hair and funny clothes... and humpbacked .
5 It was she who rescued me, General, she and the little humpbacked man.
1 Above, a hazy gibbous moon tried to break free of the clouds.
2 He leant out of his window, and looked at the gibbous moon.
3 It was a crisp evening, the gibbous moon illuminating a busy street.
4 The moon overhead was gibbous , and there were no clouds in the sky.
5 One or two revealed gibbous , then crescent forms before they faded behind me.
1 One case showed a 15 degrees kyphotic angle in the proximal adjacent segment.
2 The kyphotic angles were measured using the Cobb technique.
3 However, kyphotic women had no greater back pain, disability caused by back problems, or poorer health.
4 Conclusion: We describe a rare adjacent segment kyphotic condition in a young man with SMA Type II.
5 The kyphotic angulation was restored from 10.14 degrees to 2.32 degrees.
1 But this man had been crookbacked and hideous, and he looked as though he might have lice.
1 I know he dislikes those with deformities, for all his fool Will Somers is a crookback .
2 The words ' crookback lawyer's clerk' still rankled.
3 The interior of the square was a maze of stalls and crookback aisles, shaded by awnings of woven grass.
4 You, the crookback lawyer!'
5 All that way the plains are as full of crookback oxen (buffaloes) as the mountain Serena in Spain is of sheep.
6 Between the buildings were broad roads lined with trees, wandering crookback streets, and alleys so narrow that two men could not walk abreast.
7 Henry says, 'His grandfather left Crookback for my father's service.'
8 Both the Crookback Range and Mount Silverstone looked awfully big.
9 But this man had been crookbacked and hideous, and he looked as though he might have lice.
10 All the buildings were dominated by the Crookback Range, a dark mass that filled half the northern horizon.
11 'You are the crookback the King jested over at Fulford.
12 'I ask nothing from you, crookback . ' He lay down again, looking across at the window.
13 'It went for the crookback lawyer,' someone said.
14 'You feel sorry for that monk, crookback ?
15 "This I think belongs to you," submitted the crookback .
16 'You annoy me, crookback , ' he said.
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