Words / I / Medicine

I am writing to refer

phrase

B2CEFR level
55/100Rarity: uncommon
TechnicalRegister

A standard opening formula used to state the purpose of a referral letter in its first sentence.

I am writing to refer Mr Thomas Grant, a 62-year-old retired teacher, for assessment of a suspicious breast lump.

Topic: OET letter-writing 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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