penetration
B1CEFR level
25/100Rarity: fairly common
TechnicalRegister
The entry of material into the laryngeal vestibule without passing below the vocal folds.
The videofluoroscopy showed laryngeal penetration that was cleared by an effective cough.
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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