whiplash

English

Etymology

whip +‎ lash

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -æʃ

Noun

whiplash (plural whiplashes)

1. the lash of a whip
2. an injury to the upper spine connected to a violent jerk of the head in either a backward or forward or side to side direction, resembling the motion of a whip

   Synonyms: whiplash injury, whiplash-associated disorder

Usage notes

The exact causal chain leading to the medical condition as well as the objectivisation of its diagnostics are still controversial, thus the attributability of symptoms to the acts of tortfeasors is frequently subject to dispute.

Translations

lash of a whip

• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Dutch: zweepslag (nl)
• Finnish: piiskanisku
• French: coup de fouet (fr) m
• German: Peitschenriemen m
• Italian: colpo (it) m di (it) frusta (it) f
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• Norwegian: please add this translation if you can
• Portuguese: chicotada (pt) f
• Russian: реме́нь кнута́ m (reménʹ knutá), бечева́ плети́ f (bečevá pletí)
• Spanish: tralla (es) f
• Swedish: pisksnärt (sv) c

whiplash injury

• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Dutch: whiplash (nl) c
• Finnish: piiskaniskuvamma (fi), niskan retkahdusvamma
• French: coup du lapin (fr) m (informal), traumatisme (fr) cervical (fr) m (formal)
• German: Schleudertrauma (de) n, Halswirbelsäulenschleudertrauma n, HWS-Schleudertrauma n, Halswirbelsäulen-Distorsion f, HWS-Distorsion f, Distorsion der Halswirbelsäule f, Schleudertrauma der Halswirbelsäule n
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• Norwegian: please add this translation if you can
• Italian: colpo di frusta m
• Portuguese: lesão em chicote f
• Russian: хлыстова́я тра́вма f (xlystovája trávma)
• Spanish: latigazo cervical m
• Swedish: whiplashskada (sv) c

Verb

1. To jerk back and forth; to buffet
2. To lash as if with a whip
   • 1990, V.C. Andrews, My Sweet Audrina‎^[1], →ISBN, page 98:

     After a while, he let go of my hand in order to protect his own face from being whiplashed by the low branches.