laminectomy
C2CEFR level
96/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister
Surgical removal of the vertebral lamina to decompress the spinal cord or nerve roots.
Decompressive laminectomy relieved the neurogenic claudication caused by lumbar canal stenosis.
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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