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culture and sensitivity

phrase/ˈkʌltʃər ənd ˌsensəˈtɪvəti/

C1CEFR level
75/100Rarity: rare
TechnicalRegister

A laboratory test that grows an organism from a specimen and determines which antimicrobials it is susceptible to.

Please send a mid-stream urine sample for culture and sensitivity before starting antibiotics.

Similar: culture and susceptibility

Topic: Infectious disease 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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