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crushing chest pain

noun

A2CEFR level
20/100Rarity: fairly common
TechnicalRegister

A heavy, tight, or squeezing pain in the centre of the chest that is a classic warning sign of a heart attack.

He described a crushing chest pain like an elephant sitting on his chest.

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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