dowager's hump

noun

1. a type of kyphosis, common in older women, in which the shoulders become rounded and the upper back develops a hump: caused by osteoporosis resulting in skeletal deformity.

Example Sentences

A dowager’s hump, bright red hair streaked with white and a perma-snarl completed the character.

Read more on New York Times

She is hunched over, her dowager’s hump forcing her to face her lap.

Read more on Literature

The clothes pull against the torso; they twist around it; the artificial lumps suggest a pregnant belly, a dowager’s hump, a prominent derriere, an obese waistline.

Read more on Washington Post

This photograph shows the spine of a 79-year-old woman with kyphosis, or "dowager's hump."

Read more on The Verge

This hunched back appearance is known as kyphosis, or "dowager's hump", and causes the upper back and shoulders to round forward.

Read more on BBC