adhesion
B2CEFR level
65/100Rarity: rare
TechnicalRegister
Medicine noun
A band of fibrous scar tissue that abnormally binds together structures which are normally separate, often forming after surgery.
Small bowel obstruction from adhesions is a well-recognised late complication of laparotomy.
Law noun
A standardised contract offered on a take-it-or-leave-it basis, leaving the weaker party no scope to negotiate its terms.
The court scrutinised the exclusion clause more closely because the policy was one of adhesion drafted entirely by the insurer.
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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