cervical
/ˈsɜː.vɪk.l̩//ˈsɝ.vɪk.l̩/
cervical adjective: of or pertaining to the neck. Also the ellipsis of cervical vertebra.
Adjective
cervical (not comparable)
Also used as
cervical is also the ellipsis of cervical vertebra.
cervical meaning in Vietnamese
cervical in Vietnamese
- of the neck
- cảnh
Examples of cervical in a sentence
- Car accidents lead to many cervical spine injuries and various levels of paralysis.
- Patients with cervical injuries usually arrive in the intensive care unit (ICU) already intubated.
- Significantly more cervical spine injuries were seen in fallers as opposed to jumpers.
Forms of cervical
| plural | cervicals |
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Origin of cervical
Borrowing from French cervical, from New Latin cervīcālis, from cervīx (“the neck, nape”) + -ālis (“-al”, adjectival suffix). By surface analysis, cervic- + -al.
Words formed from cervical
- buccocervical
- cervical artery
- cervical canal
- cervical cancer
- cervical cap
- cervical collar
- cervical conization
- cervical enamel
- cervical ganglion
- cervically
- cervical nerve
- cervical plexus
- cervical smear
- cervical spine
- cervical vertebra
- cervico-
- costocervical
- craniocervical
- distocervical
- dorsocervical
- ectocervical
- endocervical
- exocervical
- extracervical
- faciocervical
- inferior cervical ganglion
- intracervical
- labiocervical
- laterocervical
- linguocervical
- midcervical
- middle cervical ganglion
- noncervical
- occipitocervical
- orocervical
- paracervical
- postcervical
- pubocervical
- retrocervical
- scending cervical artery
- spinocervical
- superior cervical ganglion
- supracervical
- syncervical
- thoracocervical
- thyrocervical
- transcervical
- transverse cervical artery
- trigeminocervical
- ureterocervical
- uterocervical
- vaginocervical
- vesicocervical
Phrases with cervical
Words that rhyme with cervical
Questions about cervical
- What does cervical mean?
- Cervical means of or pertaining to the neck.
- What is cervical in Vietnamese?
- Cervical in Vietnamese is cảnh. See Cervical meaning in Vietnamese.
- What part of speech is cervical?
- Cervical is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce cervical?
- Cervical is pronounced /ˈsɜː.vɪk.l̩/ (UK).
Words near cervical in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: cervical (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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