# Why is the Cervix very far from the Cervical area of the neck? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [April 25, 2024, 9:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-the-cervix-very-far-from-the-cervical-area-of-the-neck/1000735 "2024-04-25T09:55:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2024, 9:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-the-cervix-very-far-from-the-cervical-area-of-the-neck/1000735/1 "2024-04-25T09:55:22Z")
Having endured surgery 10 days ago on C-4, 5, 6 & 7 I’ve got more than a passing familiarity with the Cervical area of my spine. Why in the world is the neck area of the spinal process called this, whereas the lower spine area around the Cervix is called the Lumbar/ Sacros-Iliac area? Someone messed up… ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2024, 10:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-the-cervix-very-far-from-the-cervical-area-of-the-neck/1000735/2 "2024-04-25T10:02:12Z")
Do you mean the birth canal cervix? It’s because that’s the ‘neck’ of the uterus. ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2024, 10:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-the-cervix-very-far-from-the-cervical-area-of-the-neck/1000735/3 "2024-04-25T10:10:07Z")
Yes. Indeed !? ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2024, 10:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-the-cervix-very-far-from-the-cervical-area-of-the-neck/1000735/4 "2024-04-25T10:37:50Z")
Yes. Neck is used in the sense of a neck of a river, i.e. a narrow channel, or the neck of a bottle. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2024, 10:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-the-cervix-very-far-from-the-cervical-area-of-the-neck/1000735/5 "2024-04-25T10:38:37Z")
Right. Depending on the sex, the human body has more than one cervix. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2024, 11:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-the-cervix-very-far-from-the-cervical-area-of-the-neck/1000735/6 "2024-04-25T11:19:39Z")
Similarly, a “sinus” is any bay-like opening — there’s a renal sinus in your kidneys. ---
**Author:** ![Folly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folly/32/3219_2.png) [@Folly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folly)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2024, 11:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-the-cervix-very-far-from-the-cervical-area-of-the-neck/1000735/7 "2024-04-25T11:20:53Z")
Open the sinus doors, Hal… ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Bravo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_bravo/32/493_2.png) [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2024, 11:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-the-cervix-very-far-from-the-cervical-area-of-the-neck/1000735/8 "2024-04-25T11:46:18Z")
The body is also chock-full of sphincters, not just the one that’s the butt of so many jokes. ---
**Author:** ![RitterSport](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rittersport/32/6326_2.png) [@RitterSport](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RitterSport)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2024, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-the-cervix-very-far-from-the-cervical-area-of-the-neck/1000735/9 "2024-04-25T11:52:21Z")
If the cervix were near the cervical area of the neck, it would be too long of a swim, I would think. ---
**Author:** ![leahcim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b4bc9f/32.png) [@leahcim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leahcim)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2024, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-the-cervix-very-far-from-the-cervical-area-of-the-neck/1000735/10 "2024-04-25T12:17:59Z")
IIUC “vagina” and “appendix” are also names for generic shapes of things, even though they normally refer to one specific instance of that shape. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2024, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-the-cervix-very-far-from-the-cervical-area-of-the-neck/1000735/11 "2024-04-25T14:58:41Z")
> [@RitterSport](#): > > If the cervix were near the cervical area of the neck, it would be too long of a swim, I would think. Not with enough body re-designs (for both sexes). > **[Zoologger: The fish with its genitals on its head](https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn22023-zoologger-the-fish-with-its-genitals-on-its-head/)** > > Newly discovered in Vietnam, Phallostethus cuulong has its gonads under its chin – along with a serrated saw and rod for grasping females ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2024, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-the-cervix-very-far-from-the-cervical-area-of-the-neck/1000735/12 "2024-04-25T21:57:31Z")
What a dickhead. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2024, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-the-cervix-very-far-from-the-cervical-area-of-the-neck/1000735/13 "2024-04-25T22:10:26Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > Yes. Neck is used in the sense of a neck of a river, i.e. a narrow channel, or the neck of a bottle. And to confuse you further, other organs that are nowhere near the neck have necks of the own, i.e. the gallbladder, pancreas and urinary bladder. ---
**Author:** ![kferr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/71e660/32.png) [@kferr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kferr)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2024, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-the-cervix-very-far-from-the-cervical-area-of-the-neck/1000735/14 "2024-04-27T14:18:42Z")
How does a sinus heart rhythm fit it with the other usage of sinus? ---
**Author:** ![DPRK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4491bb/32.png) [@DPRK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DPRK)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2024, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-the-cervix-very-far-from-the-cervical-area-of-the-neck/1000735/15 "2024-04-27T17:44:08Z")
The signal is generated by the sinoatrial node (located in the sinus of the vena cava), I always figured that was the source of the name? The excitation then travels across the atria to the atrioventricular node, then along the bundle of His, then down to the Purkinje fibres. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2024, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-the-cervix-very-far-from-the-cervical-area-of-the-neck/1000735/16 "2024-04-27T18:08:15Z")
> [@kferr](#): > > How does a sinus heart rhythm fit it with the other usage of sinus? A sinus is a cavity. The sinoatrial node is located in the Sinus venosus. > **[Sinus venosus](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinus_venosus)** > > The sinus venosus is a large quadrangular cavity which precedes the atrium on the venous side of the chordate heart.\[verification needed\] > In mammals, the sinus venosus exists distinctly only in the embryonic heart where it is found between the two venae cavae; in the adult, the sinus venosus becomes incorporated into the wall of the right atrium to form a smooth part called the sinus venarum which is separated from the rest of the atrium by a ridge called the crista terminalis. In most mammals, ... Both of these confusions emerge from the Latin meaning of a word not precisely matching the colloquial use. ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2024, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-the-cervix-very-far-from-the-cervical-area-of-the-neck/1000735/17 "2024-05-08T15:59:57Z")
> [@DPRK](#): > > The signal is generated by the sinoatrial node (located in the sinus of the vena cava), I always figured that was the source of the name? The excitation then travels across the atria to the atrioventricular node, then along the bundle of His, then down to the Purkinje fibres. The Automaticity system in the human body is just a remarkable bit of evolution. I believe in Evolution. I also believe there’s a God of sorts. Evolution took care of the Automaticity. Random bits of basic chemistry- the normal diet of the last, say, 5 million years or so, allow for the heart to do its thing. Deny someone a few basic elements? Their heart is fucked. For that matter, deny yourself 100% of fats in ALL manner and type and eventually the lining of the brain will start to decay and neurological deficits will present. Doesn’t have to be short ribs, but the lining of the brain takes the fat from the blood before anywhere else in the body. It uses it to feed the brain. Love A&P !!! ---
**Author:** ![Machine\_Elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@Machine\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machine_Elf)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2024, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-the-cervix-very-far-from-the-cervical-area-of-the-neck/1000735/18 "2024-05-08T16:55:49Z")
> [@leahcim](#): > > IIUC “vagina” and “appendix” are also names for generic shapes of things, even though they normally refer to one specific instance of that shape. Yes. The original latin word “vagina” referred to a sheath, and it’s used in that sense to also mean things other than the mammalian birth canal. > **[Invagination](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invagination)** > > Invagination is the process of a surface folding in on itself to form a cavity, pouch or tube. In developmental biology, invagination is a mechanism that takes place during gastrulation. This mechanism or cell movement happens mostly in the vegetal pole. Invagination consists of the folding of an area of the exterior sheet of cells towards the inside of the blastula. In each organism, the complexity will be different depending on the number of cells. Invagination can be referenced as one of the s... ---
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“Cunnus” in Latin means wedge shaped and also meant the vulva. It is not 100% established that “the c-word” derives from that but cunnilingus definitely does. The “cuni” root is part of many anatomical names, referencing the shape, and that word root knowledge always made it easier for me to remember the structures … ---
**Author:** ![Machine\_Elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@Machine\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machine_Elf)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2024, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-the-cervix-very-far-from-the-cervical-area-of-the-neck/1000735/20 "2024-05-09T12:09:02Z")
Etymology is really interesting and surprising. > **[Cuneiform](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuneiform)** > > Cuneiform\[note 1\] is a logo-syllabic writing system that was used to write several languages of the Ancient Near East. The script was in active use from the early Bronze Age until the beginning of the Common Era. Cuneiform scripts are marked by and named for the characteristic wedge-shaped impressions (Latin: cuneus) which form their signs. Cuneiform is the earliest known writing system and was originally developed to write the Sumerian language of southern Mesopotamia (modern Iraq). > Over the ... [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-the-cervix-very-far-from-the-cervical-area-of-the-neck/1000735.md?page=2)