Neck

Neck

The neck is the part of the body, on many terrestrial or secondarily aquatic vertebrates, that distinguishes the head from the torso or trunk. The adjective (from Latin) signifying "of the neck" is cervical (though this more frequently used to describe the cervix).

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Famous quotes containing the word neck:

    “Man is the head of the family, woman the neck that turns the head.”
    —Chinese aphorism.

    “Generation on generation, your neck rubbed the windowsill
    of the stall, smoothing the wood as the sea smooths glass.”
    —Donald Hall (b. 1928)

    “After all, it is not where one washes one’s neck that counts but where one moistens one’s throat.”
    —Djuna Barnes (1892–1982)