whiplash injury

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whiplash injury

(Medicine / Pathology) Med informal any injury to the neck resulting from a sudden thrusting forwards and snapping back of the unsupported head Technical name hyperextension-hyperflexion injury

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whiplash injury - an injury to the neck (the cervical vertebrae) resulting from rapid acceleration or deceleration (as in an automobile accident)

whiplash

harm, hurt, injury, trauma - any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.

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