Neck Neck The neck is the part of the body, on many vertebrates, that separates the head from the torso. It contains blood vessels and nerves that supply structures in the head to the body. These in humans include part of the esophagus, the larynx, trachea, and thyroid gland, major blood vessels including the carotid arteries and jugular veins, and the top part of the spinal cord. In anatomy, the neck is also called by its Latin names, cervix or collum, although when used alone, in context, the word "cervix" more often refers to the uterine cervix, the neck of the
Anna on the Neck a cross which was supposed to be worn on the neck. In his October 1895 review, the writer and critic Yuri Govorukha-Otrok juxtaposed Chekhov's story with some similar plots by Alexander Ostrovsky, concluding that where the latter seeks for drama and tragedy, the former is quite content with the comical approach, which he'd developed in his early works. In 1904 the critic Yuri Dyagilev (writing under the pseudonym Yu. Chereda), analyzed "Anna on the Neck" and "The House with the Mezzanine" along the lines of his own conception according to which Chekhov and Dostoyevsky were the masters of paeans to