febrile convulsion
B2CEFR level
55/100Rarity: uncommon
TechnicalRegister
A seizure triggered by a rapid rise in body temperature in a young child, usually between six months and five years of age.
The parents were reassured that a simple febrile convulsion does not cause brain damage and rarely leads to epilepsy.
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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