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Webster 1913 Edition
Wryneck
Wry′neck
,Noun.
(Med.)
1.
A twisted or distorted neck; a deformity in which the neck is drawn to one side by a rigid contraction of one of the muscles of the neck; torticollis.
Webster 1828 Edition
Wryneck
WRYNECK
,Noun.
1.
A twisted or distorted neck; a deformity in which the neck is drawn to one side, and at the same time somewhat forwards.2.
A disease of the spasmodic kind in sheep, in which the head is drawn to one side.3.
In ornithology, a bird resembling the woodpeckers, the Yunx torquilla; so called form the singular manner in which when surprised, it tuns its head over its shoulders.Definition 2024
wryneck
wryneck
English
Eurasian Wryneck twisting its neck
Noun
wryneck (plural wrynecks)
- Either of two small woodpeckers, Jynx torquilla and Jynx ruficollis, of the Old World that can turn their heads almost 180 degrees.
- (medicine, dated) A twisted or distorted neck; a deformity in which the neck is drawn to one side by a rigid contraction of one of the muscles; torticollis.
Synonyms
Hyponyms
- Eurasian wryneck (J. torquilla)
- red-throated wryneck (J. ruficollis)
Translations
either of two small woodpeckers, Jynx torquilla and Jynx ruficollis
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torticollis — see torticollis