gum-elastic bougie
C1CEFR level
92/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister
A long semi-rigid introducer railroaded through the cords to guide a tracheal tube when the laryngeal view is poor.
I could only see the epiglottis, so I slid a gum-elastic bougie underneath it and felt the tracheal clicks.
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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