neurapraxia
C2CEFR level
97/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister
A transient block of nerve conduction without disruption of the axon, usually resolving fully.
The postoperative foot drop was attributed to neurapraxia from intraoperative positioning and recovered within weeks.
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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