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neckbrace

alt. (context emergency medicine English) An orthopedic device used to support the neck and head of those with neck or head injury. n. (context emergency medicine English) An orthopedic device used to support the neck and head of those with neck or head injury.

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Professor Wolfgang Erhofen, of the Yale Psychophysics Department, reported that in questioning several hundred persons kidnapped by the invader, it was discovered that two of the victims, who had been in auto accidents, were wearing the usual steel neckbrace collars to immobilize broken necks or spines.