What does cervical mean?

Definitions for cervical
ˈsɜr vɪ kəlcer·vi·cal

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. cervicaladjective

    of or relating to the cervix of the uterus

    "cervical cancer"

  2. cervicaladjective

    relating to or associated with the neck

Wiktionary

  1. cervicaladjective

    of the neck

  2. cervicaladjective

    of the cervix

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Cervicaladjective

    Belonging to the neck.

    Etymology: cervicalis, Lat.

    The aorta bending a little upwards, sends forth the cervical and axillary arteries; the rest turning down again, forms the descending trunk. George Cheyne, Philosophical Principles.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Cervicaladjective

    of or pertaining to the neck; as, the cervical vertebrae

  2. Etymology: [L. cervix, -icis, neck: cf. F. cervical.]

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Cervical

    sėr′vi-kal, adj. belonging to the neck. [Fr.,—L. cervix, cervicis, the neck.]

Entomology

  1. Cervical

    relating or belonging to the neck.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of cervical in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of cervical in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of cervical in a Sentence

  1. Margaret Stanley:

    This intensive and rigorous Cochrane analysis ... provides reassuring and solid evidence of the safety of these vaccines in young women, it reinforces the evidence that preventing infection by vaccination in young women ... reduces cervical precancers dramatically.

  2. Marsha Mudge:

    I have a tumor behind my skull. I have a tumor on my sacrum. I have one on my [cervical] spine somewhere, and on my liver and my lymph node and my left breast, it’s just hard. I just, I don’t want to die.

  3. Mark Feinberg:

    You quickly recognize that you have a vaccine that can have such a major impact in preventing cervical cancer, and the greatest disease burden is concentrated in the world's poorest communities. You cannot with any conscience not come forward and make the vaccine affordable and create a sustainable vaccination program, the program in Rwanda had two purposes: to get the vaccine to a population who could benefit, but also to demonstrate what was possible. Rwanda is an incredible country in its commitment to national health. If it wasn't possible in Rwanda, we knew it wouldn't be possible anywhere else.

  4. Peter Navarro:

    We know statistically, based on our experience with the China trade shock in the 2000s, that unemployment creates more suicides, depression and drug abuse, but we also know this in this crisis, as we've basically locked down our hospitals for everything but Covid, women haven't been getting mammograms or cervical examinations for cancer. We haven't been able to do other procedures for the heart or the kidneys. And that's going to kill people as well.

  5. Randy Shelerud:

    The main advantage is that there is direct support on the mid-cervical spine with these pillows, which allows less pressure on the cervical facets in the mid spine. The airline seats force one’s head into a bit of flexion not allowing the cervical spinal musculature [ basically all muscles running along the spine ] the ability to completely relax.

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