- 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
French in...
- Umlaut/Diaeresis
Hungarian alphabet Ray
Larabie (18 Aug 2010). "The Low
Profile Acutes vs. Hungarumlaut". typophile.com.
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original on 2015-05-01...
- In photography,
acutance describes a
subjective perception of
visual acuity that is
related to the edge
contrast of an image.
Acutance is
related to the...
- 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...
-
Acute pancreatitis (AP) is a
sudden inflammation of the pancreas.
Causes include a
gallstone impacted in the
common bile duct or the
pancreatic 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...
- terminology, such as "brain attack" and "
acute ischemic cerebrovascular syndrome" (modeled
after heart attack and
acute coronary syndrome, respectively), to...
-
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...
