capillary refill time
C1CEFR level
80/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister
The time taken for colour to return to a blanched nail bed, used as a bedside marker of peripheral perfusion.
A prolonged capillary refill time of four seconds pointed to poor peripheral perfusion.
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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