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[–] 11 points 2 years ago

If you dislocate your elbow, you didn't break a bone, the joint just came unhinged.
Your spine is a set of joints.
An internal decapitation is basically a "dislocated skull".

It's only because we have a special word for "head came off" that it's a bit mixed up.

Colloquially, you probably could call it a broken neck, since I don't know if anyone particularly cares if the spinal nerve damage was because bone fractured or just came loose, outside of a medical professional.

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