surgical site infection
C1CEFR level
65/100Rarity: rare
TechnicalRegister
An infection occurring in the part of the body where surgery took place, ranging from superficial to deep or organ-space.
The redness and purulent discharge were consistent with a superficial surgical site infection.
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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