nonunion
C2CEFR level
80/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister
The failure of a fractured bone to heal within the expected time, with no prospect of doing so without intervention.
The atrophic nonunion of the scaphoid required bone grafting and rigid internal fixation.
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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