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cardiac catheterisation

noun

C1CEFR level
75/100Rarity: rare
TechnicalRegister

A procedure in which a thin tube is threaded through a blood vessel into the heart to diagnose or treat cardiac conditions.

During cardiac catheterisation we measured the pressures inside each chamber of the heart.

Topic: Cardiology 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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