failure to thrive
B1CEFR level
40/100Rarity: uncommon
TechnicalRegister
Poor weight gain or growth in an infant or young child that falls significantly below expected values.
The baby was referred to the paediatric clinic for failure to thrive after dropping across two centile lines.
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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