NECK MUSCLES

Crosswords: NECK MUSCLES

English words defined with "NECK MUSCLES": neck exercise ♦ torticollis ♦ wryneck. (references)

Specialty definitions using "NECK MUSCLES": wry neck. (references)

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Specialty Definition: NECK MUSCLES

Domain	Definition
Health	The neck muscles consist of the platysma, splenius cervicis, sternocleidomastoid(eus), longus colli, the anterior, medius, and posterior scalenes, digastric(us), stylohyoid(eus), mylohyoid(eus), geniohyoid(eus), sternohyoid(eus), omohyoid(eus), sternothyroid(eus), and thyrohyoid(eus). (references)
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Use in Literature: NECK MUSCLES

Title	Author	Quote
Grapes of Wrath	Steinbeck, John	The strained bundle of neck muscles stood out.
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Non-Fiction Usage: NECK MUSCLES

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Muscle contraction headaches appear to involve the tightening or tensing of facial and neck muscles. (references)
		These babies also crane their necks as they use their neck muscles to try to get as much air as possible into their lungs. (references)
		After 4 hours of reading slumped in bed, she knew she had overdone it. Her tensed head and neck muscles felt as if they were being squeezed between two giant hands. (references)
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Anagrams: NECK MUSCLES

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-c-e-e-k-l-m-n-s-s-u"
	-3 letters: lucences, mescluns, neckless.
	-4 letters: lucence, mesclun, muckles, muscles, suckles.
	-5 letters: censes, census, cleeks, clucks, clunks, cusecs, ensues, kneels, lenses, lessen, lumens, menses, mesnes, muckle, muscle, mussel, neumes, scenes, sculks, semens, sensum, skeens, skelms, skenes, sleeks, smeeks, snecks, suckle, uncles, unless.
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