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otitis media

noun/əʊˈtaɪtɪs ˈmiːdiə/

C1CEFR level
65/100Rarity: rare
TechnicalRegister

Inflammation of the middle-ear cleft, which may be acute, chronic or associated with effusion.

The child presented with a bulging, erythematous tympanic membrane consistent with acute otitis media.

Topic: ENT in Medical English

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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