subacute

IPA: sˈʌbʌkjˈut

noun

  • (medicine, dated) A patient whose condition is less than acute.

adjective

  • (medicine) Less than acute, as:
  • (medicine, usually) Longer in duration than acute but shorter in duration than chronic.
  • (general vocabulary, often) Lesser in severity than acute.
  • (biology) Having a pointed tip, but with a broad (obtuse) or slightly rounded angle
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Examples of "subacute" in Sentences

  • Subacute bacterial endocarditis.
  • Subacute lymphocytic thyroiditis.
  • Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis.
  • It is cause of severe and subacute dementia.
  • Subacute combined degeneration of spinal cord.
  • Subacute A slower, less severe progression of the disease.
  • The spire is slightly convexly conic and the apex subacute.
  • Measles can progress to subacute sclerosing panencephalitis.
  • Subacute transverse myelitis with Lyme profile dissociation.
  • Retinal hemorraghages in subacute carbon monoxide poisoning.
  • A damper on the immediate use of intracoronary stents was subacute thrombosis.
  • The article now has a reference that purports to doubt the cause-effect relationship between the drug cloquinol and the disease known as subacute myelo-optic neuropathy.

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