collimate
C2CEFR level
95/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister
To narrow and confine the X-ray beam to the region being imaged.
Always collimate closely to the joint so that unnecessary tissue is not irradiated.
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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