episiotomy
C2CEFR level
78/100Rarity: rare
TechnicalRegister
A surgical cut made to the perineum to enlarge the vaginal opening and assist delivery.
An episiotomy was performed to expedite delivery when the fetal heart rate dropped.
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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