Torticollis with recurrent but transient contraction of the muscles of the neck and esp.

One individual suffering from one of the most extreme cases recorded of stage 3 Torticollis.

* It may come from Latin iynx, that is, the wryneck bird, which has occasionally been used in magic and divination and is remarkable for its ability to twist its head almost 180 degrees while hissing like a snake.

The Eurasian Wryneck ( Jynx torquilla ) is a species of wryneck in the family of woodpeckers.

The Red-throated Wryneck, Jynx ruficollis, is a species of wryneck in the woodpecker family.

:" Tried on more than 1, 400 patients for almost two years, it has proved effective for many kinds of pain in the muscles and around joints — charley horse, tennis elbow, stiff neck, torticollis (' wryneck '), whiplash injury, muscular rheumatism, and muscle pain resulting from slipped disks ".

These names were taken from actual names of birds in ancient Greek, such as the wryneck, hawk, jay, duck, goldfinch, and four others with no recognizable modern equivalents.

When I hold my son he stiffens his whole body in my arms until he is as straight and stiff as a board.

Boyer is suffering from a stiff neck.

The pain from arthritis is due to inflammation that occurs around the joint, damage to the joint from disease, daily wear and tear of joint, muscle strains caused by forceful movements against stiff painful joints and fatigue.

Carbon fibre has an excellent strength to weight ratio, is stiff, and gives excellent kinetic energy transfer.

For extruded bricks the clay is mixed with 10-15 % water ( stiff extrusion ) or 20-25 % water ( soft extrusion ).

A slight degree of laryngealisation, occurring in some Korean consonants for example, is called " stiff voice ".

There is a contrast between the rigidity of death and the weakness of life: " When he is born, man is soft and weak ; in death he becomes stiff and hard.

Stencil graffiti, originating in the early 1980s, is created by cutting out shapes and designs in a stiff material ( such as cardboard or subject folders ) to form an overall design or image.

In areas of deeper bedrock with soft overlying soils, deep foundations are used to support structures directly on the bedrock ; in areas where bedrock is not economically available, stiff " bearing layers " are used to support deep foundations instead.

Mathesar is, like all of his people, an upright octopoid who appears as a white-skinned, gray-clad, black-haired human, speaks in stiff tones of voice, smiles warmly even when in sorrow or fear.

Gelatin ( or gelatine, from Latin: gelatus = stiff, frozen ) is a translucent, colorless, brittle ( when dry ), flavorless solid substance, derived from collagen obtained from various animal by-products.

One reason for such a threat is that, unlike the typical sword and sorcery adventurer, the hero is seldom bored stiff by ordinary life and therefore will not abandon it quickly and on any excuse.

* Linoleum knife: is a small knife that has a short, stiff blade with a curved point and a handle and is used to cut linoleum or other sheet materials.

This flexible waxed sheet is backed by a sheet of stiff card stock, with the sheets bound at the top.

Criminal penalties can be stiff ; one of the basic functions of the system is to uphold the power of the regime.

To make dental amalgam, a mixture of powdered silver and other metals is mixed with mercury to make a stiff paste that can be adapted to the shape of a cavity.

Cartilage is a stiff and inflexible connective tissue found in many areas in the bodies of humans and other animals, including the joints between bones, the rib cage, the ear, the nose, the elbow, the knee, the ankle, the bronchial tubes and the intervertebral discs.

; Wood laminates: The perfect wood for a ski is light, flexible in length and stiff in cross-section.

There are a series of stops in Korean, sometimes written with the IPA symbol for ejectives, which are produced using " stiff voice ", meaning there is increased contraction of the glottis than for normal production of voiceless stops.

The indirect evidence for stiff voice is in the following vowels, which have a higher fundamental frequency than those following other stops.

The caudal peduncle is absent and the caudal fin is reduced to a stiff rudder-like structure.

Honest I could feel the hair stand up on the back of my neck like a dog's that is going to get into a fight.

By lifting the seat upwards a little, the weight is taken off the neck and the back is kept rounded.

He raced by within twenty feet of her, roped her around the neck, but a lioness' neck is short and thick and with a quick twist she slipped the noose off.

Now there is no reason in the world why a matchmaker in Ireland should happen also to be a talented soft-shoe dancer and gifted improviser of movements of the limbs, torso and neck, except that these talents add immensely to the enjoyment of the play.

The greatly elongated head is set on a short, thick neck, and the end of the snout bears a disc, which houses the nostrils.

Her whole body is made of highly advanced synthetic jelly silicon and with 60 artificial joints in her face, neck, and lower body ; she is able to demonstrate realistic facial expressions and sing while simultaneously dancing.

An abscess could potentially be fatal ( although this is rare ) if it compresses vital structures such as the trachea in the context of a deep neck abscess.

Physically, Antarctica is divided in two by Transantarctic Mountains close to the neck between the Ross Sea and the Weddell Sea.

This is a key head, neck and spinal relationship.

One innovation is a metal bar called a truss rod, which is incorporated into the neck to strengthen it and provide adjustable counter-tension to the stress of the strings.

In fashion, the Bardot neckline ( a wide open neck that exposes both shoulders ) is named after her.

Torsion of the neck ( opisthotonos or torticollis ) is observed in severely affected animals.

The bass guitar is similar in appearance and construction to an electric guitar, but with a longer neck and scale length, and four, five, six, or eight strings.

Freyja is so wrathful that all the Æsir ’ s halls beneath her are shaken and the necklace Brísingamen breaks off from her neck.

The mood of the story is fashioned from the start through names of the participants: Naomi, which means " my gracious one " or " my delight ," later asks to be called Mara, " the bitter one "; her two sons are Mahlon, " sick ", and Chilion, " weakening " or " pining " and Orpah, meaning " mane " or " gazelle ", is from the root for " nape " or " back of the neck ", appropriate for the daughter-in-law who turns her back on Naomi and returns to her people.

This crane is pale blue-gray in colour becoming darker on the upper head, neck and nape.

The smooth coat is marked with 10 – 15 vertical white-yellow stripes, spread along the back from the base of the neck to the rump.

There is another white chevron where the neck meets the chest.

Similarly, frets on earlier balalaikas were made of animal gut and tied to the neck so that they could be moved around by the player at will ( as is the case with the modern saz, which allows for the microtonal playing distinctive to Turkish and Central Asian music ).