ACUTE at Medical Glossary

What is it? Short term, intense symptomatology or pathology, as distinct from chronic. Many diseases have an acute phase (like HIV seroconversion disease) and a chronic phase. This distinction is sometimes used in treatments, as in highdose ganciclovir for acute (or

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