Cervix

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Cervix \Cer"vix\, n.; pl. E. {Cervixes}, L. {Cervices}. [L.]
     (Anat.)
     The neck; also, the necklike portion of any part, as of the
     womb. See Illust. of {Bird}.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  cervix
       n 1: the part of an organism that connects the head to the rest
            of the body; "he admired her long graceful neck" [syn: {neck}]
       2: necklike opening to the uterus [syn: {uterine cervix}, {cervix
          uteri}]
       [also: {cervices} (pl)]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  178 Moby Thesaurus words for "cervix":
     abbreviation, advocate, alpenstock, ankle, arm, articulation,
     astriction, astringency, athletic supporter, back, backbone,
     backing, bag, ballocks, balls, bandeau, basket, beard, bearer,
     bottleneck, boundary, bra, brace, bracer, bracket, brassiere,
     breasts, butt, buttress, cane, carrier, circumscription, clinch,
     clitoris, closure, coarctation, cod, cods, compactedness,
     compaction, compression, compressure, concentration, condensation,
     connecting link, connecting rod, connection, consolidation,
     constriction, constringency, contraction, contracture, corset,
     coupling, crook, crutch, cullions, curtailment, decrease,
     diminuendo, dovetail, elbow, embrace, family jewels, female organs,
     foundation garment, fulcrum, genitalia, genitals, girdle,
     gliding joint, gonads, guy, guywire, hinge, hinged joint, hip,
     hourglass, hourglass figure, interface, isthmus, jock, jockstrap,
     join, joining, joint, juncture, knee, knitting, knuckle, labia,
     labia majora, labia minora, lingam, link, lips, mainstay,
     maintainer, male organs, mast, meat, miter, mortise, narrow place,
     narrowing, neck, nuts, nymphae, ovary, penis, phallus, pivot,
     pivot joint, private parts, privates, privy parts, prop,
     pubic hair, puckering, pudenda, pursing, rabbet, reduction,
     reinforce, reinforcement, reinforcer, reproductive organs, rest,
     resting place, rigging, rocks, scarf, scrotum, seam,
     secondary sex characteristic, sex organs, shortening, shoulder,
     shroud, solidification, spermary, spine, sprit, staff,
     standing rigging, stave, stay, stick, stiffener, stitch,
     stranglement, strangulation, strengthener, striction, stricture,
     support, supporter, sustainer, suture, symphysis, systole, testes,
     testicles, tie rod, toggle, toggle joint, union, upholder, uterus,
     vagina, vulva, walking stick, wasp waist, weld, womb, wrinkling,
     wrist, yoni