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train-of-four

noun

C2CEFR level
95/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister

A pattern of four successive electrical stimuli delivered to a peripheral nerve to quantify the degree of neuromuscular blockade from the evoked twitches.

A train-of-four ratio above 0.9 confirmed that recovery was adequate for safe extubation.

Similar: TOF

Topic: Anaesthesia in Medical English

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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