wryneck

Either of two small woodpeckers, Jynx torquilla of Eurasia and Africa or J. ruficollis of sub-Saharan Africa, having a sharply pointed bill and the ability to twist the neck almost all the way around.

A person with torticollis.

A twisted or distorted neck; a deformity in which the neck is drawn to one side and rotated. See torticollis.

A spasmodic disease of sheep, in which the head is drawn to one side.

A scansorial picarian bird of the genus Iynx (Junx, or Yunx), allied to the woodpeckers, and belonging to the same family or a closely related one: so called from the singular manner in which it can twist the neck, and so turn it awry.

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.

a person suffering from torticollis.