acute
急性,急症,急性病,急剧
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Definitions
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- : sharp or severe in effect; intense: acute sorrow;an acute pain.
- : extremely great or serious; crucial; critical: an acute shortage of oil.
- : brief and severe.
- : sharp or penetrating in intellect, insight, or perception: an acute observer.
- : extremely sensitive even to slight details or impressions: acute eyesight.
- : sharp at the end; ending in a point.
- : Geometry. less than 90°. containing only acute angles.
- : consisting of, indicated by, or bearing the mark ´, placed over vowel symbols in some languages to show that the vowels or the syllables they are in are pronounced in a certain way, as in French that the quality of an e so marked is close; in Hungarian that the vowel is long; in Spanish that the marked syllable bears the word accent; in Ibo that it is pronounced with high tones; or in classical Greek, where the mark originated, that the syllable bears the word accent and is pronounced, according to the ancient grammarians, with raised pitch: the acute accent; an acute e.
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Examples
Otherwise, the public purse and citizens are deprived of funds for much needed investments – the need for which is even more acute now to support Europe’s economic recovery.
I experience chronic sinusitis and headaches with fairly frequent acute infections.
So the hospital industry lobbied for a new kind of health system for older adults who were dependent on getting medical help but did not need acute care.
I am for more of it, not less, especially at this moment of acute need.
ProPublica focused on those who remained — the 55 people who died outside of any acute care setting, in categories the coroner labeled “decedent residence,” “hospice” and “other care center,” which often included hospice deaths.
Exploitation of trafficking victims may be most acute in conflict and adjoining regions, but it is not confined to these areas.
This sense of vulnerability is, of course, even more acute in micro-states like Jamaica.
Hyperemesis Gravidarum is very acute morning sickness, which may require supplementary hydration, medication and nutrients.
The soil variations are acute enough that they can differ radically from one side of a road to another.
And my teenage daughters went into the town to shop at cute stores selling cute things at acute prices.
In and chronic parenchymatous nephritis the quantity is usually very large.