abrasion
B2CEFR level
45/100Rarity: uncommon
TechnicalRegister
The pathological wearing of tooth substance through mechanical action other than tooth-to-tooth contact.
Vigorous horizontal brushing had produced cervical abrasion notches on the canines.
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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