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
Isolation and Recovery Site Services – services received by an Enrollee in an Isolation and Recovery site that are paid for by EOHHS using the payment methodologies described in Administrative Bulletin AB 20-30 or as set forth in the Acute Hospital RFA.
Administratively Necessary Day shall be defined as a day of Acute Inpatient Hospitalization on which an Enrollee’s care needs can be provided in a setting other than an Acute Inpatient Hospital and on which an Enrollee is clinically ready for discharge.
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 radiation dose(s) or chemical exposure(s) occurring within a short period of time (24 hours or less).
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 of, relating to, or resulting from a level of toxicity of a substance, a substance combination, or an effluent sufficient to produce observable lethal or sublethal effects in aquatic organisms exposed for short periods of time, typically 96 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.