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a 65-year-old

phrase

A2CEFR level
5/100Rarity: common
TechnicalRegister

The conventional demographic opener used to introduce a patient by age, often followed by occupation or relevant context.

Mrs Iris Bell is a 65-year-old retired nurse who presented with sudden-onset breathlessness.

Topic: OET letter-writing in Medical English

Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.

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