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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In pathology, a curvature of the spine, convex backward. Usually written kyphosis.
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In the 'Organon' he asserted that Psora was the cause of such diseases as epilepsy, cyphosis, cancer, jaundice, deafness, and cataract.
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