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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)...

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

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...

intensive care, and many general areas where the patient could become acutely unwell and require stabilization and transfer to another higher dependency...

mice or rats) in the laboratory. When a person has been exposed to an acutely toxic dose of a substance, they can be treated in a number of ways in order...

In some schools of phonetics, sounds are distinguished as grave or acute. This is a perceptual classification, based on whether the sounds are perceived...

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...

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

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

recognised that care for acutely admitted patients should ideally be concentrated in "medical assessment units" (MAUs), later named "acute medical units" (AMUs)...

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

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...

Acute pericarditis is a type of pericarditis (inflammation of the sac surrounding the heart, the pericardium) usually lasting less than 6 weeks.[citation...

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...

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...

Schwa with acute (Ә́ ә́; italics: Ә́ ә́) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. Schwa with acute is sometimes used in the Tatar language, where it represents...

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