vocal cord nodules
C1CEFR level
80/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister
Benign, bilateral thickenings of the vocal folds caused by chronic voice overuse or misuse.
The teacher's chronic hoarseness was due to vocal cord nodules from prolonged vocal strain.
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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