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Acute - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Acute may refer to: • Acute angle • Acute accent • Acute (medicine) • Acute (phonetic) • Acute toxicity • The Acute - an alternative Rock band from Edinburgh, Scotland
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Acute (medicine) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In medicine, an acute disease is a disease with either or both of: • a rapid onset, as in acute infection • a short course (as opposed to a chronic course). This adjective is part of the definition ...
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Information on the international outbreak of the illness known as severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS). Provided by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control & Prevention. ... Public:; English 800-CDC-INFO; Español 888-246-2857 ; TTY 888-232-6348; Clinician:; English 877-554-4625 ... Sign up for the Clinician Registry...
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Acute: Of abrupt onset, in reference to a disease. Acute often also connotes an illness that is of short duration, rapidly progressive, and in need of urgent care. ... "Acute" is a measure of the time scale of a disease and is in contrast to "subacute" and "chronic." "Subacute" indicates longer duration or less rapid change.
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Acute - Definition of Acute at Dictionary.com a free online dictionary with pronunciation, synonyms, and translation of Acute. Word of the Day and Crossword Puzzles. ... sharp or severe in effect; intense: acute sorrow; an acute pain.
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This is an acute angle ... ; All the angles below are acute angles: ... Remember to look carefully at which angle you are being asked to name. It is the small angle which is less than 90° which is the acute angle...
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Information about acute bronchitis from the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP). ... Most cases of acute bronchitis will go away on their own after a few days or a week. It's a good idea to get plenty of rest, drink lots of noncaffeinated fluids (for example, water and fruit juices) and increase the humidity in...
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Definition of acute from the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary with audio pronunciations, thesaurus, Word of the Day, and word games. ... 1 a (1) : characterized by sharpness or severity <acute pain> (2) : having a sudden onset, sharp rise, and short course <acute disease> (3) : being, providing, or requiring short-term...
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