The Classical Doctrine of Indian Medicine: Its Origins and its Greek Parallels c9.12

c9.12

as if the verb *ā-yam* denotes to wring), those of Vāgbhaṭa that the base of the neck is contracted; it does not, however, follow that "neck" and "the base of the neck" are synonymous. In the form of tetanus described, the sterno-cléido-mestoids draw violently their attachments so that the osseous sterno-clavicular arc (which is the bone of the *jatru*) is drawn although little deformable, as a bow.