Sentence examples for wry neck from inspiring English sources
In some patients, wry neck is caused by the contraction of the sternomastoid muscle, in which case, surgeons of the 18th century resorted to cutting the muscle.
It was used for a condition known as wry neck, better known today as torticollis, in which the head is held in a tilted or twisted position.
Each character's name is a guide to the entertainment to be expected: the energetic Mr Pancks invariably rakes his hair upright and steams about like a tugboat; Mr Sparkler rants about "damn fine women with no nonsense about them"; Mr Flintwinch, with his wry neck and crooked necktie, perpetually screws himself into sinister corners.
A significant number of children presenting with pain in the back were found to have infective causes (viral illnesses, urinary tract infections, meningitis, osteomyelitis), although there was also a large number with torticollis or wry neck that had been coded as neck/back pain by the triage nurse.
The mice also exhibited torticollis (wry neck, Figure 2B, upper) and slightly radiolucent bones (Figure 2B, lower).
Read Codes included cervicalgia (65%), cervical spondylosis (10%), whiplash (8%), wry neck torticollis (5%), neck sprain (4%), and stiff neck (3%).
Find a wet nurse from the outer dwellings, make him green dresses from the velvet curtains, take this gold ring of mine, fix a chain to it, let him wear it around his wry little neck, call him Titus.
This is why most of SiC nanorods shown in Fig. 3c are wry-necked.
Then, in 2006, she rallied as a writer, returning to form with "I Feel Bad About My Neck," a wry and invaluable book about aging.
Even brighter was the casting of Ian Somerhalder as the brooding blood-sucker's self-amused brother who swigs scotch and snaps human necks while tossing off wry quips.
"To get a better life, I knew there would be a struggle; I knew I am not going to be living like Trump right away," said Mr. Camara with the wry smile of someone who craned his neck to gawk at Mr. Trump's towers without indulging much hope of getting a foot in the door.
