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paraplegia

noun/ˌpærəˈpliːdʒə/

B1CEFR level
30/100Rarity: fairly common
TechnicalRegister

Complete paralysis of both lower limbs.

Following the thoracic injury he was left with paraplegia and required bladder retraining.

Topic: Neurology 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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