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referral letter

noun

B1CEFR level
35/100Rarity: fairly common
TechnicalRegister

A letter written to direct a patient to another clinician or service for further assessment or specialist management.

I am enclosing a referral letter for your review of Mr Adams's worsening angina.

Similar: letter of referral

Topic: OET letter-writing 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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