foot drop
B2CEFR level
55/100Rarity: uncommon
TechnicalRegister
An inability to lift the front of the foot due to weakness or paralysis of the dorsiflexor muscles.
The common peroneal nerve palsy left him with a foot drop, so he compensated by lifting the knee higher.
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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