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arterial

adjective/ɑːˈtɪərɪəl/

B1CEFR level
30/100Rarity: fairly common
TechnicalRegister

Relating to the arteries, as in an indwelling line used for continuous blood-pressure monitoring and sampling.

An arterial line was sited before induction to permit beat-to-beat pressure monitoring in the unstable patient.

Topic: Anaesthesia 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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