jugular venous pressure
C2CEFR level
85/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister
The visible pulsation in the neck veins that reflects the pressure of blood returning to the right side of the heart.
Her jugular venous pressure was raised to five centimetres, in keeping with right heart failure.
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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