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post-operative nausea and vomiting

noun

B2CEFR level
55/100Rarity: uncommon
TechnicalRegister

Nausea, retching or vomiting occurring in the first day or so after anaesthesia and surgery.

Given her three Apfel risk factors, we gave prophylactic antiemetics to reduce post-operative nausea and vomiting.

Similar: PONV

Topic: Anaesthesia 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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