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acute respiratory distress syndrome

noun/əˈkjuːt rɪˈspɪrətəri dɪˈstrɛs ˈsɪndrəʊm/

C1CEFR level
70/100Rarity: rare
TechnicalRegister

An acute, diffuse inflammatory lung injury causing bilateral infiltrates and severe hypoxaemia not fully explained by cardiac failure.

His chest film showed bilateral infiltrates consistent with acute respiratory distress syndrome.

Similar: ARDS

Topic: Critical care 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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