Torticollis

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A contracted state of the neck muscles that causes the neck to rotate and tilt sideways, forwards, or backwards. Also called wryneck.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A medical condition in which the neck muscles contract causing the neck to twist or jerk
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. See wryneck.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. In medicine, an affection in which the head is inclined toward one or the other shoulder while the neck is twisted so as to turn the chin in the opposite direction; stiff-neck; wry-neck.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. an unnatural condition in which the head leans to one side because the neck muscles on that side are contracted
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    Variant
    wryneck   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    wryneck