Wryneck \Wry"neck\, n. (Med.)
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   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.
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   2. a person suffering from torticollis.
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   3. (Zool.) Any one of several species of Old World birds of
      the genus Jynx or subfamily Jynginae, allied to the
      woodpeckers; especially, the common European species
      (Jynx torguilla); -- so called from its habit of turning
      the neck around in different directions. Called also
      cuckoo's mate, snakebird, summer bird, tonguebird,
      and writheneck.
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