colostomy
B2CEFR level
60/100Rarity: rare
TechnicalRegister
A surgically created opening that brings a portion of the colon to the abdominal surface to divert faeces.
A defunctioning colostomy was formed to protect the fresh rectal anastomosis while it healed.
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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