{i} family name; Francis Crick (1916-2004), British biophysicist, winner of the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology for his discovery of the double helical structure of DNA (together with James Watson)
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
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