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barotrauma

noun/ˌbarəʊˈtrɔːmə/

C2CEFR level
88/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister

Lung injury such as pneumothorax caused by excessive airway pressure during mechanical ventilation.

A sudden fall in saturations and rising airway pressures raised concern for barotrauma.

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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