neck exercise | exercise designed to strengthen the neck muscles |
soft-shell clam steamer steamer clam long-neck clam Mya arenaria | an edible clam with thin oval-shaped shell found in coastal regions of the United States and Europe |
analgesic anodyne painkiller pain pill | a medicine used to relieve pain |
choker ruff ruffle neck ruff | a high tight collar |
crew neck crew neckline | a plain straight neckline opening from shoulder to shoulder of sweaters |
neck neck opening | an opening in a garment for the neck of the wearer, a part of the garment near the wearer's neck |
neck | a narrow part of an artifact that resembles a neck in position or form, the banjo had a long neck, the bottle had a wide neck |
neck brace | a brace worn to steady the neck |
turtleneck turtle polo-neck | a sweater or jersey with a high close-fitting collar |
turtleneck collar polo-neck collar | a high close-fitting turnover collar |
V neck | the neck of a garment has the shape in front of the letter V |
neck cervix | the part of an organism (human or animal) that connects the head to the rest of the body, he admired her long graceful neck, the horse won by a neck |
bull neck | a thick short powerful neck |
cervical vertebra neck bone | one of vertebrae in the human spine located in the neck region |
pain threshold | the lowest intensity of stimulation at which pain is experienced, some people have much higher pain thresholds than do other people |
pain pain sensation painful sensation | a somatic sensation of acute discomfort, as the intensity increased the sensation changed from tickle to pain |
phantom limb pain | pain felt by an amputee that seems to be located in the missing limb |
annoyance bother botheration pain infliction pain in the neck pain in the ass | something or someone that causes trouble, a source of unhappiness, washing dishes was a nuisance before we got a dish washer, a bit of a bother, he's not a friend, he's an infliction |
pleasure principle pleasure-pain principle pleasure-unpleasure principle | (psychoanalysis) the governing principle of the id, the principle that an infant seeks gratification and fails to distinguish fantasy from reality |
pain painfulness | emotional distress, a fundamental feeling that people try to avoid, the pain of loneliness |
neck sweetbread throat sweetbread | edible thymus gland of an animal |
neck | a cut of meat from the neck of an animal |
beef neck | a cut of beef from the neck of the animal |
soft-shell clam steamer steamer clam long-neck clam | a clam that is usually steamed in the shell |
vicinity locality neighborhood neighbourhood neck of the woods | a surrounding or nearby region, the plane crashed in the vicinity of Asheville, it is a rugged locality, he always blames someone else in the immediate neighborhood, I will drop in on you the next time I am in this neck of the woods |
neck | a narrow elongated projecting strip of land |
pain pain in the neck nuisance | a bothersome annoying person, that kid is a terrible pain |
swan orchid swanflower swan-flower swanneck swan-neck | any of several orchids of the genus Cycnoches having slender arching columns of flowers suggesting the neck of a swan |
pain unit | a unit measuring the intensity of pain |
pain hurting | a symptom of some physical hurt or disorder, the patient developed severe pain and distension |
chest pain | pain in the chest |
lumbago lumbar pain | backache affecting the lumbar region or lower back, can be caused by muscle strain or arthritis or vascular insufficiency or a ruptured intervertebral disc |
labor pain | pain and discomfort associated with contractions of the uterus during labor |
referred pain | pain that is felt at a place in the body different from the injured or diseased part where the pain would be expected, angina pectoris can cause referred pain in the left shoulder, pain in the right shoulder can be referred pain from gallbladder disease |
trouble ail pain | cause bodily suffering to and make sick or indisposed |
neck make out | kiss, embrace, or fondle with sexual passion, The couple were necking in the back seat of the car |
pain anguish hurt | cause emotional anguish or make miserable, It pains me to see my children not being taught well in school |
neck and neck head-to-head nip and tuck | inconclusive as to outcome, close or just even in a race or comparison or competition, as they approached the finish line they were neck and neck, the election was a nip and tuck affair |
neck-deep up to my neck up to your neck up to her neck up to his neck up to our necks up to their neck | deeply involved, neck-deep in work, up to their necks in debt |
pain-free unpainful | not accompanied by pain sensations, pain-free surgery |
neck and neck head-to-head nip and tuck | even or close in a race or competition or comparison, the horses ran neck and neck, he won nip and tuck |