Words / R / Medicine

remifentanil

noun/ˌrɛmɪˈfɛntənɪl/

C2CEFR level
97/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister

An ultra-short-acting synthetic opioid metabolised by plasma esterases, giving a context-insensitive half-life.

A remifentanil infusion provided profound intraoperative analgesia that dissipated within minutes of discontinuation.

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.

Get words like remifentanil on your lock screen, a few a day, with review that makes them stick.

Download on the App Store Lexfall puts a new word on your home and lock screen through widgets, so you learn without opening an app. Free to download. After a free trial, a subscription unlocks every field. Built for iPhone, iOS 15.1 or later.
QR code that opens Lexfall on the App Store
On a computer?Scan with your iPhone camera.

More medicine words: Anaesthesia