cricothyroidotomy
C2CEFR level
95/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister
An emergency surgical airway created through the cricothyroid membrane when the upper airway cannot otherwise be secured.
With oxygen saturations plummeting, the anaesthetist performed a scalpel cricothyroidotomy to rescue the airway.
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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