A70-year-old female client tells the health care provider she is concerned because she is getting shorter and her posture is not as good as it used to be. the provider completes an assessment of her spine and notes a loss of height in the vertebral column and kyphosis. this assessment would be recognized as:

Dowager hump.

Explanation:

Dowager hump may be defined as the outward curvature of the upper's back thoracic vertebra. The compression of front portion in vertebra may occur due to the bending of spine in forward direction known as kyphosis.

A 70 year female patient is getting shorter and disbalane posture but her health assessment and notes a height  loss in the kyphosis and vertebral column. The assessment is known as dowager hump.

Thus, the answer is dowager hump.

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