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What does kyphoscoliosis mean?

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Noun
  1. (medicine) Abnormal curvature of the spine in both coronal and sagittal planes; i.e. backward and lateral (sideways) spinal curvature.
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He'd been Brittany's orthopedist since she was two, and for five years, he'd known that her kyphoscoliosis could kill her if it wasn't corrected.
He also suffered from severe kyphoscoliosis, which developed during his adolescence and from a recent onset of hypertension, which was resistant to medication.

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