decubitus
C2CEFR level
82/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister
A position in which the patient lies on one side, often used to detect free fluid or air.
A left lateral decubitus film was taken to demonstrate a small pleural effusion.
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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