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bradykinesia

noun

C2CEFR level
92/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister

An abnormal slowness in initiating and carrying out movements, a cardinal feature of Parkinson's disease.

The bradykinesia made everyday tasks such as buttoning a shirt increasingly difficult.

Topic: Neurology 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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