1. Relating or belonging to the neck, or to any body part that resembles a neck: When spending hours at the desk correcting students' exams, Mr. Jackson complained of having cervical pains.
2. Concerning any kind of neck: The cervical or cervix, includes the neck on which the head is perched and the neck of the uterus.

In a woman's body, the cervical part belongs to the womb, or uterus.

The word cervix in Latin means, "neck". That is why "cervical vertebrae" and "cervical cancer" involve quite various parts of the anatomy joined only by the meaning of the word cervix.

Any one of the arteries found in the neck.

A congenital fissure (deep furrow, cleft, or slit) of the neck.

The occurrence of a fernlike pattern when uterine cervix mucus is allowed to dry for ten minutes on a glass slide and is then examined microscopically.

It is indicative of the presence of estrogen, which alters the concentration of sodium chloride in the mucus.

One of the bones of the neck or the seven segments of the vertebral column located in the neck area: " The vertebrae are located closest to the skull in the neck."

An outward curvature (kyphosis) of the cervical vertebrae (the bones of the neck), creating a hump at the back of the neck.

This condition, once thought to be a characteristic deformity of older women, was called a "dowager's hump". A dowager was a woman of high social rank whose husband was dead but who had a title (such as, "duchess") and property because of her marriage to him.

Postmenopausal cervical kyphosis is a result of osteoporotic changes in the cervical spine. It may affect men or women. Like most osteoporotic changes, the condition is often preventable.