Studies in the Medicine of Ancient India, Part I: Osteology, or the Bones of the Human Body c7.s3.t1.1

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1. *Grīvā*, neck. This term is used in all the three lists, of Ātreya-Charaka, Suśruta, and Vāgbhaṭa I, to denote the cervical column in the posterior part of the neck. The list in the Atharva Veda (§ 43) uses the term *skandha* in the plural number to denote the neck-bones.