en bloc
C1CEFR level
70/100Rarity: rare
TechnicalRegister
Describing removal of a tumour together with surrounding structures as a single, intact specimen.
The tumour and involved lymph nodes were removed en bloc to reduce the risk of tumour spillage.
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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