Idle Wonders, #3 in a series

I was looking up this medical problem my dad has called cervical stenosis. It's a pain in your neck (ironically) from your cervical vertebrae having narrowed to where the spinal cord can't be accommodated. 

And I got to wondering . . . how come your neck is your cervical spine, way up there, yet your cervix is, you know, way down there???

<--- The graphic at left shows the divisions of the vertebra in the human spine.

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 The graphic at right shows that the human

 spine is not actually

color-coded.

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The position of the canine bitch's cervix, indicated here, approximates the position of the human female's cervix. See why I wondered??

Postscript:

I've looked up the answer to the opening question.
The cervix is considered the "neck of the womb." Ah.