Research
705,846 papers- COVID-19 pathophysiology: looking beyond acute disease.The Lancet. Respiratory medicine · 2021
- The twenty-sixth Acute Disease Quality Initiative: the Pediatric ADQI (pADQI)-a dream realized.Pediatric nephrology (Berlin, Germany) · 2024
- Chronic Implications of an Acute Disease: Long-Term Outcomes in Pediatric Acute Kidney Injury Survivors.The Journal of pediatrics · 2023
- Acute respiratory disease.The Medical clinics of North America · 1947
- Fever in acute disease--beneficial or harmful?Wiener klinische Wochenschrift · 2002
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Encyclopedic overview
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 time constitutes "short" and "recent" varies by disease and by context, but the core denotation of "acute" is always qualitatively in contrast with "chronic", which denotes long-lasting disease (for example, in acute leukaemia and chronic leukaemia).
In the context of the mass noun "acute disease", it refers to the acute phase (that is, a short course) of any disease entity. For example, in an article on ulcerative enteritis in poultry, the author says, "in acute disease there may be increased mortality without any obvious signs", referring to the acute form or phase of ulcerative enteritis.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “acute disease” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.