collum

(kol’um), pl. col’la [L.]. The neck; also any neck-like part or structure. c. anatom’- icum. Sce anatomic neck, under neck. c. chirur’gicum, the surgical neck of a bone. c. dist or’tum, torticollis. c. fem’or is, the neck of the femur. c. val’gum. Same as coxa valga.