status epilepticus
C2CEFR level
90/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister
A medical emergency in which a seizure lasts more than five minutes or seizures recur without recovery in between.
He remained convulsing on arrival, so we treated him for status epilepticus with intravenous lorazepam.
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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