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hypoechoic

adjective/ˌhaɪpəʊɛˈkəʊɪk/

C2CEFR level
90/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister

Producing fewer echoes and therefore appearing darker than surrounding tissue on ultrasound.

A hypoechoic thyroid nodule with irregular margins warranted fine-needle aspiration.

Topic: Radiology & imaging 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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