whiplash

n. a painful injury to the soft tissues of the neck, which can persist for months, resulting from a sudden change of motion of the body. This often occurs in car accidents in which the car is struck from behind, causing the head to be snapped back suddenly. Also called cervical sprain syndrome.

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Psychology term of the day

July 27th 2024

trinucleotide repeat

a contiguous repetition of the same three nucleotides within a nucleic acid (DNA or RNA). The occurrence of extra trinucleotide repeats in certain genes causes dysfunction, inluding Huntington’s disease and fragile X syndrome.