cervical vertebra
neck bone

And we found ourselves up to the neck bone in bureaucrats.

In bureaucrats we were up to the neck bone.

Most species of azhdarchids are still known mainly from their distinctive neck bones and not much else.

I think you dislocated a few of my neck bones.

They would be lucky to keep their heads connected to the proverbial neck bone.

"There wasn't too much meat on those neck bones," he recalled.

The head toppled off the neck bones and hit the table with a thump.

"We ate beans and neck bones for weeks," Jackie said.

The lich nodded with a crack of his neck bones.

No evidence of foul play; all the neck bones we found were intact.