muscle guarding
C2CEFR level
80/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister
A protective involuntary tightening of muscles around a painful or injured area.
There was considerable muscle guarding of the lumbar spine, so we prioritised pain relief before hands-on treatment.
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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