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Definition of dowager's hump in English: dowager's humpnoun mass nounForward curvature of the spine resulting in a stoop, typically in women with osteoporosis, caused by collapse of the front edges of the thoracic vertebrae. Example sentencesExamples - The presence of a dowager's hump (spinal curvature) in elderly patients indicates multiple vertebral fractures and decreased bone volume.
- Unchecked, it leads to changes in posture, particularly in the form of a hunched back known colloquially as dowager's hump, and decreased mobility.
- She was petite and had a dowager's hump or minor hunchback.
- Some indicators of people having osteoporosis are a loss of height or a dowager's hump due to multiple fracture of small bones in the vertebrae,’ he said.
- Okay, if we really look hard, Mick has just the smidgen of the beginnings of a dowager's hump.
- I often wonder, would she have gone gentle into the dewlaps, the crow's feet and the dowager's hump?
Definition of dowager's hump in US English: dowager's humpnoun Forward curvature of the spine resulting in a stoop, typically in women with osteoporosis, caused by collapse of the front edges of the thoracic vertebrae. Example sentencesExamples - Okay, if we really look hard, Mick has just the smidgen of the beginnings of a dowager's hump.
- Some indicators of people having osteoporosis are a loss of height or a dowager's hump due to multiple fracture of small bones in the vertebrae,’ he said.
- I often wonder, would she have gone gentle into the dewlaps, the crow's feet and the dowager's hump?
- The presence of a dowager's hump (spinal curvature) in elderly patients indicates multiple vertebral fractures and decreased bone volume.
- Unchecked, it leads to changes in posture, particularly in the form of a hunched back known colloquially as dowager's hump, and decreased mobility.
- She was petite and had a dowager's hump or minor hunchback.
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