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full weight-bearing

adjective

B2CEFR level
60/100Rarity: rare
TechnicalRegister

Describing a limb that is able to bear the entire weight of the body.

By her final review she was full weight-bearing and walking without aids.

Topic: Musculoskeletal in Medical English

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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