post-dural puncture headache
C2CEFR level
93/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister
A characteristically postural headache caused by leakage of cerebrospinal fluid through a hole in the dura after neuraxial puncture.
Her frontal headache that worsened on sitting up pointed to a post-dural puncture headache, and we discussed a blood patch.
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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