Definition of "torticollis" []

• A contracted state of the neck muscles that causes the neck to rotate and tilt sideways, forwards, or backwards. Also called wryneck. (noun)

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• "The woman's husband, Noe Medina, told the Orange County Register on Tuesday that his wife had been hospitalized for postpartum depression in June after she said she didn't want their son, Noe Jr., who was diagnosed with congenital muscular torticollis — a twisting of the neck to one side."
• "The Navy crew were, it seems, involved in a business undertaking, [...] on August 9, 2007 at 3: 45 am | Reply torticollis torticollis stiff neck is very painful!"
• "Here's the thing that comes along to complicate any strict feminist criticism of objectification in the images of Prommenschenckel lying prone: She has a condition known as spasmodic torticollis."