stapedectomy
C2CEFR level
96/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister
The surgical removal of the fixed stapes and its replacement with a prosthesis to restore ossicular mobility.
Stapedectomy offers durable hearing restoration in patients with otosclerosis who decline a hearing aid.
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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