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kypho-

Humped.

Greek kuphos, bent, hunchbacked.

In medicine, kyphosis is an excessive outward curvature of the spine, causing hunching of the back; kyphoscoliosis (Greek skolios, bent) is a condition in which the spinal column is bent both backward and sideways, a combination of kyphosis and scoliosis.