endarterectomy
C2CEFR level
97/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister
The surgical removal of atheromatous plaque from the inner lining of an artery to restore blood flow.
Carotid endarterectomy was offered to reduce the patient's stroke risk after a symptomatic transient ischaemic attack.
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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