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.
（骨质疏松症造成的）寡妇型驼背
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 hump
noun
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.
（骨质疏松症造成的）寡妇型驼背
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.