"Soffro di cervicale (I suffer from cervicale)," they tell me, making it sound particularly serious...
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"I have looked it up in the dictionary and found "cervical" - an adjective referring to the cervical vertebrae, those little bones in the back of your neck - but as an ailment, there is simply no English translation. We do not have it!"

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-15987082