Body Location or Region
neck
neck [ nek ]
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Body Regions
Definitions related to neck:
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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 AnatomistUniversity of Washington, 2003
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Part connecting the head and trunk of the body.CRISP ThesaurusNational Institutes of Health, 2006
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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 AnatomyUniversity of Washington, 2017
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The part of a human or animal body connecting the HEAD to the rest of the body.NLM Medical Subject HeadingsU.S. National Library of Medicine, 2021
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The region that connects the head to the rest of the body.NCI ThesaurusU.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
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The neck is the part of the body that separates the head from the torso. The Latin-derived term cervical means " the="" of="" neck."="">WebMD, 2019
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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, Inc., 2020
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