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awareness

noun/əˈwɛənəs/

A2CEFR level
5/100Rarity: common
TechnicalRegister

The unintended return of consciousness during general anaesthesia, sometimes with explicit recall.

Accidental awareness under anaesthesia is a rare but deeply distressing complication that may cause lasting psychological harm.

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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More medicine words: Anaesthesia