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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“I find the pain of a little censure, even when it is unfounded, is more acute than the pleasure of much praise.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)