hand hygiene
A2CEFR level
20/100Rarity: fairly common
TechnicalRegister
The cleaning of hands with soap and water or alcohol gel to interrupt transmission of pathogens.
Meticulous hand hygiene between patients remains the single most effective infection-control measure.
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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