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n. - An abnormal inward (forward) curvature of the vertebral column.

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  • Once female pigs catch a whiff of androstenone they immediately assume a posture called lordosis, replete with a curved back and wiggly haunches.
  • Gloria tried to remember the medical term for it: it was something to do with a lordosis.
  • The lordosis resembles the similar deformity which develops in cases of primary myopathy, when the spinal muscles have undergone complete atrophy.
  • 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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