English biochemist who (with Watson in 1953) helped discover the helical structure of DNA (born in 1916) a painful muscle spasm especially in the neck or back (`rick' and `wrick' are British) twist the head into a strained position
A painful muscular cramp or spasm of some part of the body, as of the neck or back, making it difficult to move the part affected
If you have a crick in your neck or in your back, you have a pain there caused by muscles becoming stiff. British biologist who with James D. Watson proposed a spiral model, the double helix, for the molecular structure of DNA. He shared a 1962 Nobel Prize for advances in the study of genetics. To cause a painful cramp or muscle spasm in by turning or wrenching. Variant of run. a pain in the muscles in your neck or back that is caused by the muscles becoming stiff a crick in your back/neck. to hurt your back or neck by bending or moving in a way that makes the muscles become stiff