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hollowback

hollowback is the alternative spelling of hollow back.

Meaning of hollow back

Noun

hollow back (countable and uncountable, plural hollow backs)

  1. Lumbar lordosis.
    • The three disorders analyzed in the category of spinal curvature include kyphosis or hunchback (posterior convexity); lordosis, or hollowback (anterior convexity); and scoliosis (lateral curvature).1983, J. David Cummins, Barry D. Smith, R. Neil Vance, Jack L. VanDerhei, Risk Classification in Life Insurance (Huebner International Series on Risk, Insurance, and Economic Security; 1), Dordrecht...
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see hollow, back.

Forms of hollowback

pluralhollowbacks

Questions about hollowback

What is hollowback the alternative spelling of?
Hollowback is the alternative spelling of hollow back.

Words near hollowback in the dictionary

  1. hollow-heartedness
  2. holloware
  3. hollowares
  4. holloway
  5. holloways
  6. hollowback
  7. hollowbacks
  8. Hollowcause
  9. Hollowcaust
  10. Hollowcost
  11. hollowed

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