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cervical
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cervical [′sər·və·kəl]
(anatomy)
Of or relating to the neck, a necklike part, or the cervix of an organ.


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Risk factors and precipitating neck movements causing vertebrobasilar artery dissection after cervical trauma and spinal manipulation.
Emergency room physicians, trauma surgeons, anesthesiologists, and especially otolaryngologists should maintain a high level of awareness of and suspicion for laryngotracheal trauma whenever a patient presents with multiple trauma in general or with cervical trauma in particular.
1 16 This relationship can be altered in the spinal cord injured patient as a result of cervical trauma such as whiplash-type injuries.
 
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