Injuries of neck

thumb|Detail from a painting by Pisanello, 1436–1438 Hanging is killing a person by suspending them from the neck with a noose or ligature. Hanging has been a standard method of capital punishment since the Middle Ages, and has been the primary execution method in numerous countries and regions. As a form of execution, it is commonly practiced at a structure called a gallows. The first known account of execution by hanging is in Homer's Odyssey. Hanging is also a common method of suicide.

A hickey, also known as love bite, is a bruise or bruise-like mark caused by sucking or biting the skin of a person, usually their neck. While biting may be part of giving a hickey, sucking is sufficient to burst small superficial blood vessels under the skin to produce bruising. A hickey is sometimes used to mark someone as being the target of a partner's romantic affection or as belonging to them.

range of injuries to the neck related to a sudden distortion of the neck

fracture of the anterior and posterior arches of the C1 vertebra

catastrophic fracture of any of the seven cervical vertebrae in the neck

fracture of both pedicles of the axis vertebra

brachial plexus neuropathy characterized by an abnormality, usually caused by disease or trauma, located in the brachial plexus