pericoronitis
C2CEFR level
95/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister
Inflammation of the soft tissue overlying a partially erupted tooth, most commonly a mandibular third molar.
Acute pericoronitis around the impacted wisdom tooth caused trismus and localised swelling.
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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