rigidity
B1CEFR level
30/100Rarity: fairly common
TechnicalRegister
A sustained increase in muscle tone giving uniform resistance to passive movement throughout the range.
Cogwheel rigidity at the wrist was elicited when the examiner flexed and extended the joint.
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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