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ventilation

noun/ˌventɪˈleɪʃən/

B1CEFR level
25/100Rarity: fairly common
TechnicalRegister

The movement of air into and out of the lungs, whether spontaneous or supported by a device.

We took over ventilation with a bag-valve mask when his own efforts became inadequate.

Topic: Paramedic & emergency 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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