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A person who has the acute form of a disorder, such as schizophrenia.
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An accent or tone higher than others.
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An acute accent (´).
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The word ‘cafe’ often has an acute over the ‘e’.
verb
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To give an acute sound to.
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He acutes his rising inflection too much.
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To make acute; to sharpen, to whet.
adjective
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Brief, quick, short.
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It was an acute event.
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High or shrill.
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an acute accent or tone
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Intense, sensitive, sharp.
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She had an acute sense of honour. Eagles have very acute vision.
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Urgent.
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His need for medical attention was acute.
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With the sides meeting directly to form an acute angle (at an apex or base).
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Of an angle: less than 90 degrees.
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The teacher pointed out the acute angle.
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Of a triangle: having all three interior angles measuring less than 90 degrees.
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an acute triangle
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Of an accent or tone: generally higher than others.
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Of an abnormal condition of recent or sudden onset, in contrast to delayed onset; this sense does not imply severity, unlike the common usage.
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He dropped dead of an acute illness.
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Of a short-lived condition, in contrast to a chronic condition; this sense also does not imply severity.
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The acute symptoms resolved promptly.
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After a letter of the alphabet: having an acute accent.
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The last letter of ‘café’ is ‘e’ acute.
Examples of acute in a Sentence
The branches grow at a more acute angle.
He had had a short illness, there had been a brief time of acute suffering, then all was over.
They called it acute congestion of the stomach and brain.
Jared.s senses were more acute than his, and he turned to face the direction of the castle.
The struggle between ethical religion and the current worship became acute toward the end of the 7th century.
This was soon to become acute.
In acute gonorrhoeal arthritis, simulating rheumatic fever, salicylates are useless.
Acute inflammation of the ear, with its alarming extensions to the cerebral.
Near the posterior pole of the fundus, but somewhat excentrically placed towards the temporal or outer side, is the fovea centralis, a slight depression in the retina, composed almost entirely of cones, the spot of most acute vision.
Jaw formed of folds imbricated externally and meeting at an acute angle near the base.
Formerly used in every fever, and even in the septic states that constantly followed surgical operations in the pre-Listerian epoch, aconite is now employed only in the earliest stage of the less serious fevers, such as acute tonsilitis, bronchitis and, notably, laryngitis.
Res Judicatae in 1892 and various other volumes followed, for he was in request among publishers and editors, and his easy charm of style and acute grasp of interesting detail gave him a front place among contemporary men of letters.
The friction between uncle and nephew became more acute in the following year.
In July of that year the crisis reached an acute stage.
He returned from that visit one of the foremost literary men in Europe, with views, if not profound or accurate, yet wide and acute on all les Brands sujets, and with a solid stock of money.
The tendency observable in many of the austerities and miracles attributed to St Catherine to outstrip those of other saints, particularly Francis, is especially remarkable in this marvel of the stigmata, and so acute became the rivalry between the two orders that Pope Sixtus IV., himself a Franciscan, issued a decree asserting that St Francis had an exclusive monopoly of this particular wonder, and making it a censurable offence to represent St Catherine receiving the stigmata.
Rhinoceroses are dull of sight, but their hearing and scent are remarkably acute.
Pro vincial control has caused some diversity of management; the interpretation of the denominational agreement has led to acute differences of opinion which have invaded the field of politics.
Successive half-turns about two skew axes a, b are equivalent to a twist about a screw whose axis is the common perpendicular to a, b, the translation being double the shortest distance, and the angle of rotation being twice the acute angle between a, b, in the direction from a to b.
His intellect was far-seeing and acute, quick and yet cautious, meditative, methodical and free from prejudice.
The cry of an acute financial crisis emanating from the fear of war with Argentina was now raised in Chile.
Thus in acute gout the most common and most trusted remedy for removing the pain is colchicum, but at present we do not know what action it has upon the system, or why it gives so much ease in the pain of gout while it has comparatively little effect upon pain due to other causes.
Blisters also cause local dilatation of vessels, but are usually applied to the skin for inflammation in deep-seated parts, such as the lungs, though they also relieve pain in the joints in acute rheumatism.
Even in cases of very acute intestinal diseases similar treatment is now pursued, and instead of treating dysentery simply by sedatives or astringents, an eliminative treatment by means of sulphate of magnesia is largely employed.
During an attack of acute gout nothing relieves so much as colchicum, but during the intervals potash or lithia salts taken in water are advisable, as tending to prevent the deposits of urate of soda.
In acute attacks of rheumatism the remedy par excellence is salicylate of soda, which reduces the temperature, relieves the pain, and removes the swellings from the joints.
In a time of acute trade depression this commercial rivalry was disastrous to the welfare of South Africa.
The leaves are large, with finely acute and serrated lobes, affording abundant shade.
He created many of the medical terms we use today, such as acute, chronic, endemic, epidemic, paroxysm, and relapse.
One accent only is to be used, the acute, to denote the syllable on which stress is laid.
The relief of Kimberley was indeed urgent, for dissensions between Rhodes and the military authorities had become acute.
The Guiana boundary question began now to assume an acute stage, the Venezuelan minister in Washington having persuaded President Cleveland to take up the cause of Venezuela in vindication of the principles of the Monroe doctrine.
If the white cells be required, as in local suppurating abscess, general septicaemia, acute pneumonia, &c., there is an active proliferation of the myelocytes to form the polymorpho-nuclear leucocytes, so that we have in this condition a leucoblastic transformation of the fatty marrow.
In some of the infective conditions the conflict fortifies the organism against future attacks of the same nature, as for example in the immunity following many of the acute infective diseases.
One can easily demonstrate all the actions and reactions which take place in this form of acute inflammation.
In acute and chronic alcoholism, in phthisis, and in other diseases this fatty condition may be very extreme, and is commonly found in association with other tissue changes, so that probably we should look on these changes as a degeneration.
Hyaline degeneration is found in certain acute infective conditions; the toxins specially act on these connective-tissue cell elements.
But he recognized, at least in acute diseases, a natural process which the humours went through - being first of all crude, then passing through coction or digestion, and finally being expelled by resolution or crisis through one of the natural channels of the body.
The principles of treatment just mentioned apply more especially to the cure of acute diseases; but they are the most salient characteristics of the Hippocratic school.
Besides this it was important only to consider whether the disease was acute or chronic, whether it was increasing, declining or stationary.
Soranus is known by a work, still extant in the Greek original, on the diseases of women, and also by the Latin work of Caelius Aurelianus, three centuries later, on acute and chronic diseases, which is based upon, if not, as some think, an actual translation of, the chief work of Soranus, and which is the principal source of our knowledge of the methodic school.
The nature of the struggle between the rival systems may be well illustrated by a formidable controversy about the rules for bleeding in acute diseases.
Thus it was, partly because the habit of acceptance of authority, waning but far from extirpated, dictated to the clinical observer what he should see; partly because the eye of the clinical observer lacked that special training which the habit and influence of experimental verification alone can give, that physicians, even acute and practised physicians, failed to see many and many a symptomatic series which went through its evolutions conspicuously enough, and needed for its appreciation no unknown aids or methods of research, nor any further advances of pathology.
For these reasons it may also be given with advantage to children suffering from acute bronchitis or acute laryngitis.
Wet summers are followed by an acute outbreak of liver-rot amongst sheep and this, together with the effects of other diseases that accompany wet seasons, cause the death of vast numbers of sheep, the numbers from both sources being estimated in bad years at from 12 to 3 millions in England alone.
Towards the end of the summer of 1897 he began to suffer from an acute pain, which was attributed to facial neuralgia, and in November he went to Cannes.
Okamuia Yasutaro, commonly called Shozan, produces specimens which only a very acute connoisseur can distinguish from the work of Nomura Ninsei; Tanzan Rokuros half-tint enamels and soft creamy glazes would have stood high in any epoch; Taizan YOhei produces Awata faience not inferior to that of former days; Kagiya SObei worthily supports the reputation of the KinkOzan ware; Kawamoto Eijiro has made to the order of a well-known KiOto firm many specimens now figuring in foreign collections as old masterpieces; and ItO TOzan succeeds in decorating faience with seven colors sons couverte (black, green, blue, russetred, tea-brown, purple and peach), a feat never before accomplished.
Another continuator of Bayle was Jean Leclerc, one of the most learned and acute critics of the 18th century, who carried on three reviews - the Bibliotheque universelle et historique (1686-1693), the Bibliotheque choisie (1703-1713), and the Bibliotheque ancienne et moderne (1714-1727).
Dissensions began from the first, and were peculiarly acute between Shelburne and Fox, the two secretaries of state.
The desirable effects produced by alcohol on the stomach are worth obtaining only in cases of acute diseases.