- 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
sharpness that is
related to the edge
contrast of an image.
Acutance is
related to the amplitude...
- 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 the polytonic...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
- An
acute abdomen refers to a sudden,
severe abdominal pain. It is in many
cases a
medical emergency,
requiring urgent and
specific diagnosis. Several...
- 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...
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Acute bronchitis, also
known as a
chest cold, is short-term
bronchitis –
inflammation of the
bronchi (large and medium-sized airways) of the lungs. The...
