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In photography, acutance describes a subjective perception of sharpness that is related to the edge contrast of an image. Acutance is related to the amplitude...

Look up acute in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Acute may refer to: Acute accent, a diacritic used in many modern written languages Acute (phonetic)...

consonants are highly likely to preserve their acuteness/graveness through sound change; and changes between acute and grave can often be well circumscribed...

available. An early precursor of the acute accent was the apex, used in Latin inscriptions to mark long vowels. The acute accent was first used in the polytonic...

Acute leukemia or acute leukaemia is a family of serious medical conditions relating to an original diagnosis of leukemia. In most cases, these can be...

In medicine, describing a disease as acute denotes that it is of recent onset; it occasionally denotes a short duration. The quantification of how much...

Acute care is a branch of secondary health care where a patient receives active but short-term treatment for a severe injury or episode of illness, an...

Acute pancreatitis (AP) is a sudden inflammation of the pancreas. Causes, in order of frequency, include: a gallstone impacted in the common bile duct...

Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is a cancer of the myeloid line of blood cells, characterized by the rapid growth of abnormal cells that build up in the...

Acute medicine, also known as acute internal medicine (AIM), is a specialty within internal medicine concerned with the immediate and early specialist...

Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) is a cancer of the lymphoid line of blood cells characterized by the development of large numbers of immature lymphocytes...

Acute prostatitis is a serious bacterial infection of the prostate gland. This infection is a medical emergency. It should be distinguished from other...

of acute abdomen includes:[citation needed] Acute appendicitis Acute peptic ulcer and its complications Acute cholecystitis Acute pancreatitis Acute intestinal...

Acute radiation syndrome (ARS), also known as radiation sickness or radiation poisoning, is a collection of health effects that are caused by being exposed...

Acute toxicity describes the adverse effects of a substance that result either from a single exposure or from multiple exposures in a short period of...

É or é (e-acute) is a letter of the Latin alphabet. In English, it is used for loanwords (such as French résumé), romanization (Japanese Pokémon) or occasionally...

double acute may refer to: U with double acute (Cyrillic) (Ӳ, ӳ), a Chuvash letter, regarded as a separate letter from У U with Double acute accent (Ű...

Acute bronchitis, also known as a chest cold, is short-term bronchitis – inflammation of the bronchi (large and medium-sized airways) of the lungs. The...

[unreliable medical source?] Diagnostic imaging is not usually needed in acute stage unless complications are suspected. In chronic cases, confirmatory...

The double acute accent (◌̋) is a diacritic mark of the Latin and Cyrillic scripts. It is used primarily in Hungarian or Chuvash, and consequently it...