stroke
A1CEFR level
5/100Rarity: common
TechnicalRegister
A sudden loss of brain function caused by an interruption of the blood supply to part of the brain, either by a clot or a bleed.
The patient presented with left-sided weakness and slurred speech, and the CT confirmed an acute ischaemic stroke.
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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