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neck
1. The part of the body joining the head to the shoulders.
2. Any narrow or constricted part of a bone or organ that joins its parts as, for example, the neck of the femur bone.
3. A relatively narrow elongation, projection, or connecting part: "We drove along the neck of land to our hotel."
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(Latin: neck; head-joint, throat)
(Latin: neck)
(Greek: neck)
(Medical Latin: neck; of the neck; nape of the neck)
(Greek: neck, throat, cervix)
(Greek: karos, deep sleep, drowsiness; the great arteries of the neck)
(One of the body's busiest passage ways and essential to a person's well being)
(Greek: pharynx [the alimentary canal between the palate and the esophagus]; part of the neck or throat)
(Greek: thorax, chest [part of the body between the neck and the abdomen; "breastplate, breast, chest"])
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volcanic neck
A mass of hardened volcanic magma that has been thrust upward into a volcanic cone by subterranean pressure, remaining upright after the surrounding material has been stripped away by erosion.
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crested neck
A well-arched portion of the neck.
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