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Webster 1913 Edition
Wryneck
Wry′neck
,Noun.
(Med.)
1.
A twisted or distorted neck; a deformity in which the neck is drawn to one side by a rigid contraction of one of the muscles of the neck; torticollis.
Webster 1828 Edition
Wryneck
WRYNECK
,Noun.
1.
A twisted or distorted neck; a deformity in which the neck is drawn to one side, and at the same time somewhat forwards.2.
A disease of the spasmodic kind in sheep, in which the head is drawn to one side.3.
In ornithology, a bird resembling the woodpeckers, the Yunx torquilla; so called form the singular manner in which when surprised, it tuns its head over its shoulders.