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slit lamp

noun/slɪt lamp/

C2CEFR level
85/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister

A microscope with a bright adjustable light beam used to examine the structures at the front of the eye in detail.

On slit-lamp examination there was a hypopyon and marked anterior-chamber activity.

Topic: Ophthalmology 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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