Hunchback is a descriptive yet derogatory term for a person who has severe kyphosis (from Greek κυφός / kyphos, as a hump).
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Hunchback or The Hunchback may also refer to several other things.
Arts or entertainment
Mosul (Iraq), a city nicknamed "The Hunchback" because of the leaning minaret of the Great Mosque of al-Nuri.
Related to Victor Hugo's novel The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (Quasimodo, 1831),
several films and game adaptations, whose :
- Hunchback, a 1983 Arcade and computer game ;
- The Hunchback a 1997 television film directed by Peter Medak ;
- etc. : The Hunchback of Notre Dame (disambiguation).
Others
- The Hunchback, an 1832 London play by James Sheridan Knowles.
- Le Bossu (The Hunchback in french), an 1858 French historical adventure novel by Paul Féval ;
- whose several adaptations (for instance a 1943 film directed by Jaime Salvador).
- The Hunchback, a 2009 EP by Kurt Vile & the Violators.
- Hunchback (Japanese: ハンチバック), a 2023 Japanese novel written by Saou Ichikawa and awarded by an Akutagawa Prize.
Other cinema movie
The Hunchback, a 1914 American silent film featuring Lillian Gish.
Armies
- USS Hunchback, a steam-powered gunboat used by the U.S. Navy during the Civil War ;
- Ilyushin Il-2, nicknamed "The Hunchback", a Soviet World War II ground-attack aircraft.
Other science
Hunchback (gene), in the genome of Drosophila embryogenesis.
See also
- All pages with titles beginning with Hunchback.
- All pages with titles beginning with The Hunchback.
- All pages with titles containing hunchback.
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