Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun whiplash_injury

1 sense of whiplash injury

Sense 1
whiplash, whiplash injury -- (an injury to the neck (the cervical vertebrae) resulting from rapid acceleration or deceleration (as in an automobile accident))
       => injury, hurt, harm, trauma -- (any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.)