cervical vertebra

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   one of 7 vertebrae in the human spine located in the neck region

   Synonymsneck bone

   Broadervertebra

   Narroweratlasaxis

   Part ofneck

Questions about cervical vertebra

What does cervical vertebra mean?

cervical vertebra means "one of 7 vertebrae in the human spine located in the neck region".

What is another word for cervical vertebra?

Close synonyms include neck bone. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cervical vertebra a common word?

cervical vertebra is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.