whiplash injury

1. 1.

   an injury to the neck (the cervical vertebrae) resulting from rapid acceleration or deceleration (as in an automobile accident)

   Synonymswhiplash

   Broaderinjury

Questions about whiplash injury

What does whiplash injury mean?

whiplash injury means "an injury to the neck (the cervical vertebrae) resulting from rapid acceleration or deceleration (as in an automobile accident)".

What is another word for whiplash injury?

Close synonyms include whiplash. 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 whiplash injury a common word?

whiplash injury 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.