lichenification
C1CEFR level
88/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister
Thickening of the skin with accentuation of its normal creases, produced by chronic rubbing or scratching.
Years of scratching had led to leathery lichenification of the flexural skin.
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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