discectomy
C2CEFR level
90/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister
Surgical excision of part or all of an intervertebral disc, usually to relieve nerve compression.
Microdiscectomy removed the herniated fragment impinging on the traversing S1 nerve root.
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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