- Look up
acute in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Acute may
refer to:
Acute accent, a
diacritic used in many
modern written languages Acute (phonetic)...
- In photography,
acutance describes a
subjective perception of
visual acuity that is
related to the edge
contrast of an image.
Acutance is
related to the...
- In some
schools of phonetics,
sounds are
distinguished as
grave or
acute. This is a
perceptual classification,
based on
whether the
sounds are perceived...
- available. An
early precursor of the
acute accent was the apex, used in
Latin inscriptions to mark long vowels. The
acute accent was
first used in
French in...
-
intensive care, and many
general areas where the
patient could become acutely unwell and
require stabilization and
transfer to
another higher dependency...
- In medicine,
describing a
disease as
acute denotes that it is of
recent onset; it
occasionally denotes a
short duration. The
quantification of how much...
-
Acute leukemia or
acute leukaemia is a
family of
serious medical conditions relating to an
original diagnosis of leukemia. In most cases,
these can be...
- mice or rats) in the laboratory. When a
person has been
exposed to an
acutely toxic dose of a substance, they can be
treated in a
number of ways in order...
-
recognised that care for
acutely admitted patients should ideally be
concentrated in "medical ****essment units" (MAUs),
later named "
acute medical units" (AMUs)...
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Acute pancreatitis (AP) is a
sudden inflammation of the pancreas.
Causes include a
gallstone impacted in the
common bile duct or the
pancreatic duct,...
