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clear margins

noun

C1CEFR level
78/100Rarity: rare
TechnicalRegister

A rim of healthy tissue around an excised tumour that contains no cancer cells, indicating complete removal.

The good news is that the surgeon achieved clear margins.

Similar: negative margins

Topic: Oncology 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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