translocation
C2CEFR level
70/100Rarity: rare
TechnicalRegister
A chromosomal rearrangement in which a segment moves to a different chromosome.
A balanced translocation between two chromosomes was the driving lesion in this leukaemia.
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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