Words / P / Medicine

pressure ulcer

noun

B1CEFR level
40/100Rarity: uncommon
TechnicalRegister

A localised area of skin and underlying tissue damage caused by sustained pressure over a bony prominence.

The patient has developed a grade 2 pressure ulcer over the sacrum, so I've started two-hourly repositioning.

Similar: pressure sore, bedsore, decubitus ulcer

Topic: Nursing care 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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