cervical dislocation
Medical term for dislocation of the cervical vertebrae; often used in contexts of injury or forensic examination.
He suffered a cervical dislocation in the accident and required emergency surgery.
In the forensic medicine lecture, we studied cases of cervical dislocation.
Standard kanji spelling using 頸 (neck).
Variant using the simplified character 頚 instead of 頸.
Compound of 頸椎 (cervical vertebrae) and 脱臼 (dislocation). The kanji 頸/頚 means 'neck', 椎 means 'vertebra', 脱 means 'dislocate', and 臼 means 'mortar' (here used in the sense of a joint coming out of its socket).