beta-lactam
C2CEFR level
88/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister
A class of antibiotic characterised by a beta-lactam ring that disrupts bacterial cell-wall synthesis.
His documented penicillin allergy meant that the team avoided the whole beta-lactam group where possible.
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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