ankylosis
C2CEFR level
93/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister
The pathological fusion of a tooth root directly to the alveolar bone with loss of the periodontal ligament.
Dental ankylosis prevented the retained primary molar from erupting into occlusion.
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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