lordotic

A small degree of both kyphotic and lordotic curvature is normal.

A cartoon of the painter shows his highly deformed lordotic posture.

In radiology, a lordotic view is an X-ray taken of a patient leaning backwards.

This curve is described as a lordotic curve.

Lordotic curves refer to the inward curve of the lumbar spine (just above the buttocks).

Too much lordotic curving is called swayback (lordosis).

They were instructed that if they had an excessive lordotic curve, remedial exercises would be prescribed, although it seemed no one ever was so required.

Excessive lordotic curvature is also called hyperlordosis, hollow back, saddle back, and swayback.

Such abnormal postures include foot inversion, wrist ulnar deviation, or lordotic trunk twisting.

If the lordotic curve is flexible (when the child bends forward the curve reverses itself) it is generally not a concern.

Lordotic view - used to visualize the apex of the lung, to pick-up abnormalities such as a Pancoast tumour.

-to stretch the long extensors of the spine and to assist in the remediation of an abnormal lordotic curve of the neck and lower back.

Many with Scheuermann's disease often have an excessive lordotic curve in the lumbar spine; this is the body's natural way to compensate for the kyphotic curve above.

A posterior-anterior (PA) chest X-ray is the standard view used; other views (lateral or lordotic) or CT scans may be necessary.

If therapeutic measures reduce symptoms, but not the measurable degree of lordotic curvature, this could be viewed as a successful outcome of treatment, though based solely on subjective data.

In the sense of a deformity, it is the pathological curving of the spine, where parts of the spinal column lose some or all of their lordotic profile.

Most professional contortionists are, in fact, simply persons born with congenital atrophic/dystrophic conditions of major recti, or with acute lordotic flexion of the lumbar spine, or both.

A consequence of the normal lordotic curvatures of the vertebral column, (also known as secondary curvatures) is that there are differences in thickness between the anterior and posterior part of the intervertebral disc.

Kyphosis does not always occur in tandem with posterior tilt, when the weight is born in other ways, such as on the hands, which can allow a posteriorly tilted pelvis with a neutral or even lordotic spine.

Two segments of the vertebral column, namely cervical and lumbar, are normally lordotic, that is, they are set in a curve that has its convexity anteriorly (the front) and concavity posteriorly (behind), in the context of human anatomy.

While the ancient Greek gynecologist Soranos had disapproved of giving birth on one's knees as "painful and embarrassing," he recommends it for the obese and for lordotic women, that is, those with a concave curvature of the lower back that would tilt the uterus out of alignment with the birth canal.