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).
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“Only the most acute and active animals are capable of boredom.—A theme for a great poet would be God’s boredom on the seventh day of creation.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)