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urinary tract infection

noun

A2CEFR level
15/100Rarity: common
TechnicalRegister

An infection anywhere along the urinary tract, most commonly affecting the bladder.

We sent a mid-stream urine sample before starting empirical antibiotics for the urinary tract infection.

Similar: UTI

Topic: Renal & urinary 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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