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Noun cervix has 2 senses
  1. neck, cervix - the part of an organism that connects the head to the rest of the body; "he admired her long graceful neck"
    --1 is a kind of external body part
    --1 is a part of body, organic structure, physical structure
    --1 has parts:
     dewlap; thymus gland, thymus; carotid artery, arteria carotis; cervical artery, areteria cervicalis; jugular vein, vena jugularis, jugular; trachea, windpipe; nape, scruff, nucha; throat, pharynx; cervical vertebra, neck bone; sternocleidomastoid, sternocleidomastoid muscle, sternocleido mastoideus, musculus sternocleidomastoideus
     --1 has particulars: bull neck
  2. cervix, uterine cervix, cervix uteri - necklike opening to the uterus
    --2 is a kind of orifice, opening, porta
    --2 is a part of uterus, womb
    --2 has particulars: incompetent cervix
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