de-escalation
B2CEFR level
35/100Rarity: fairly common
TechnicalRegister
The practice of narrowing antibiotic therapy to a more targeted agent once culture and sensitivity results are available.
Following culture results, de-escalation to oral amoxicillin was appropriate.
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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