What are the names for the curves of the vertebral column?

Answer:

There are essentially 3 curves in the human spine:
1. Cervical lordotic curve
2. Thoracic kyphotic curve
3. Lumbar lordotic curve

In summary the human spine has 2 lordotic curves and 1 kyphotic curve.
If you are looking at a person sideways with their face facing towards your left, the lordotic curve is concave and the kyphotic curve is convex.

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