Acute definition

Acute means posing an immediate risk to human health.

Acute means a condition, diagnosis, or illness with a sudden onset and that is of short duration.

Acute means a single radiation dose or chemical exposure event or multiple radiation dose or chemical exposure events occurring within a short time (24 hours or less).

Examples of Acute in a sentence

• Grantee shall identify and recruit submitters of clinical specimens through discussions and collaboration contact Emerging and Acute Infectious Disease Unit (EAIDU) at XXXXXXXX@xxxx.xxxxx.xxx for guidance on appropriate submitters.

• Acute care shall be for short-term resolutions of acute problems of a palliative nature with the intention that the patient will return to his/her home as soon as possible after problems are resolved.

• These services shall be provided in accordance with the Acute Hospital RFA.

• Cal Managed Care Mental Health Acute Psychiatric Inpatient hospital services are provided twenty-four (24) hours a day, seven (7) days a week.

• Acute gastrointestinal illness is the predominant illness in over half (54.3%) of recreational water-associated outbreaks in the United States and two-thirds of untreated recreational water-associated outbreaks (5).

More Definitions of Acute

Acute means symptoms that are severe and have a rapid onset and a short course;

Acute means having rapid onset, severe symptoms, and a short course.

Acute means a medical condition having a rapid onset and a short duration.

Acute as used in this part, means a single radiation dose or multiple radiation dose occurring within a short time (24 hours or less).

Acute means radiation dose(s) or chemical exposure(s) occurring within a short period of time (24 hours or less).

Acute means a stimulus severe enough to rapidly induce an effect; in aquatic toxicity tests, an effect observed in 96 hours or less typically is considered acute. When referring to aquatic toxicology or human health, an acute effect is not always measured in terms of lethality.

Acute means measurements of biological effects using surface sediment bioassays conducted for time periods that are relatively short in comparison to the life cycle of the test organism. Acute effects may include mortality, larval abnormality, or other endpoints determined appropriate by the department.