Body Location or Region
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neck [ nek ]
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Definitions related to neck:
  • Body part, which consists of a maximal set of diverse subclasses of organ and organ part spatially associated with the cervical vertebral coumn, it is partially surrounded by skin of neck. Examples: There is only one neck.
    Digital Anatomist
    University of Washington, 2003
  • Part connecting the head and trunk of the body.
    CRISP Thesaurus
    National Institutes of Health, 2006
  • Subdivision of body proper, which consists of a maximal set of diverse subclasses of organ and organ part spatially associated with the cervical vertebral coumn, it is partially surrounded by skin of neck. Examples: There is only one neck.
    Foundational Model of Anatomy
    University of Washington, 2017
  • The part of a human or animal body connecting the HEAD to the rest of the body.
    NLM Medical Subject Headings
    U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2021
  • The region that connects the head to the rest of the body.
    NCI Thesaurus
    U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
  • The neck is the part of the body that separates the head from the torso. The Latin-derived term cervical means " the="" of="" neck."="">
    Medscape
    WebMD, 2019
  • Neck, in land vertebrates, the portion of the body joining the head to the shoulders and chest. Some important structures contained in or passing through the neck include the seven cervical vertebrae and enclosed spinal cord, the jugular veins and carotid arteries, part of the esophagus, the larynx...
    Encyclopedia Britannica
    Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc., 2020
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