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propofol

noun/ˈprəʊpəfɒl/

C2CEFR level
90/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister

A rapidly acting intravenous anaesthetic emulsion widely used for induction and maintenance of anaesthesia and for sedation.

The anaesthetist titrated the propofol infusion against the patient's processed EEG to avoid awareness.

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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