1. Acute (medicine)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 of several diseases and is, therefore, incorporated in their name, for instance, severe acute respiratory syndrome, acute leukemia. The term acute may often be confused by the general public to mean 'severe'. This however, is a different characteristic and something can be acute but not severe.
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