transient ischaemic attack
B2CEFR level
65/100Rarity: rare
TechnicalRegister
A brief episode of stroke-like symptoms caused by a temporary reduction in blood flow to the brain, with full recovery within twenty-four hours.
Her arm weakness resolved within an hour, and we diagnosed a transient ischaemic attack rather than a completed 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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