sphincterotomy
C2CEFR level
93/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister
The surgical or endoscopic incision of a sphincter to relieve obstruction or spasm.
An endoscopic sphincterotomy of the ampulla allowed the impacted bile-duct stone to be extracted.
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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