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Definition: Subacute |
SubacuteAdjective1. Less than acute; relating to a disease present in a person with no symptoms of it. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Health | Somewhat acute; between acute and chronic. (references) |
Medicine | Applied to a disease that runs a moderately rapid and severe course for which the word acute would not be appropriate. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Crosswords: Subacute |
| Specialty definitions using "subacute": avian infectious coryza ♦ fowl coryza ♦ Haemophilus paragallinarum infection ♦ infectious coryza, infectious coryza of chickens, infectious coryza of fowl ♦ Lupus Erythematosus, Cutaneous ♦ SSPE Virus, Streptococcus sanguis. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Subacute Encephalomyelitis (1932) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Thioglycollate broth culture. Morphology is rod-like with chains when cultured on broth. Can cause subacute bacterial endocarditis and dental caries. Streptococci. Credit: CDC. |  | Blood agar plate culture yields coccal-like morphology without chains. The S. mutans organism can cause subacute bacterial endocarditis and dental caries. Streptococci. Credit: CDC. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE) is caused by a reaction to the measles virus. (references) | |
The disease, which has a subacute (somewhat short and relatively severe) onset, affects both children and adults. (references) | ||
Transverse myelitis may be either acute (developing over hours to several days) or subacute (developing over 1 to 2 weeks). (references) | ||
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| "Subacute" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 80.00% of the time. "Subacute" is used about 5 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 80% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 20% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 5 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "subacute": subacute bacterial endocarditis ♦ Subacute Care ♦ subacute inclusion body encephalitis ♦ subacute sclerosing leukoencephalitis ♦ Subacute Sclerosing Panencephalitis ♦ subacute toxicity. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
subacute thyroiditis | 20 |
subacute bacterial endocarditis | 13 |
subacute | 11 |
subacute cutaneous lupus | 10 |
subacute sclerosing panencephalitis | 8 |
cutaneous erythematosus lupus subacute | 4 |
subacute combined degeneration | 4 |
subacute care | 4 |
neuropathy peripheral subacute | 3 |
andover center rehab subacute | 2 |
lupus subacute | 2 |
cpl subacute | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "subacute"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | subakut. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | subacuut. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | subakuutti toksisuus (subacute toxicity), subakuutti subduraalihematooma (subacute subdural haematoma, subacute subdural hematoma), subakuutin aivoverenvuodon myöhäisvaihe (late subacute stage of haemorrhage, late subacute stage of hemorrhage), puoliäkillinen kovakalvonalainen verenpurkauma (subacute subdural haematoma, subacute subdural hematoma), parannettavissa oleva aikuisen subakuutti moniniveltulehdus (subacute rheumatic fever), haematoma subdurale subacutum (subacute subdural haematoma, subacute subdural hematoma), encephalopathia spongiformis subacuta (subacute spongiform encephalopathy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | subaigu. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | subakut. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | όψιμη υποξεία φάση (late subacute stage of haemorrhage, late subacute stage of hemorrhage), ιάσιμος υποξύς αρθρικός ρευματισμός του ενήλίκου (subacute rheumatic fever), υποξεία σπογγιόμορφη εγκεφαλοπάθεια (subacute spongiform encephalopathy), υποξύ υποσκληρίδιο αιμάτωμα (subacute subdural haematoma, subacute subdural hematoma), υπο-οξεία τοξικότητα (subacute toxicity), δοκιμή υποξείας τοξικότητας (subacute toxicity test). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | szubakut, félheveny. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | subacuto. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 亜急性 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | あきゅうせい. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ubacutesay subagudo. (various references) toxicidad subaguda (subacute toxicity), reumatismo articular subagudo curable del adulto (subacute rheumatic fever), panencefalitis esclerosante subaguda (subacute sclerosing panencephalitis), hematoma subdural subagudo (subacute subdural haematoma, subacute subdural hematoma), fase subaguda tardía (late subacute stage of haemorrhage, late subacute stage of hemorrhage), endocarditis de Osler (Osler endocarditis, subacute bacterial endocarditis, subacute bacterial endocarditis Osler), encefalopatía espongiforme subaguda (subacute spongiform encephalopathy). (various references) subakut toxicitet (subacute toxicity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "subacute": subacutely. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "subacute" (pronounced su"bukyuw"t) |
| 5 | -u k y uw" t | acute. |
| 4 | -k y uw" t | cute. |
| 3 | -y uw" t | Bute, Butte, commute, compute, dispute, disrepute, impute, mute, permute, refute, repute. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-c-e-s-t-u-u" | |
-2 letters: acutes, beauts, cuesta, sacbut. | |
-3 letters: abets, abuse, abuts, acute, baste, bates, beast, beats, beaus, beaut, betas, butes, caste, cates, cause, cesta, cubes, cutes, sauce, saute, scuba, scuta, scute, tabes, tabus, taces, tsuba, tubae, tubas, tubes. | |
-4 letters: abet, abut, aces, acts, ates, base, bast, bate, bats, beat, beau, best, beta, bets, bust, bute, buts. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-c-e-s-t-u-u" | |
+1 letter: cubatures. | |
+2 letters: subacutely. | |
+3 letters: acetabulums, bureaucrats, elucubrates, subcurative, tuberculars. | |
+4 letters: subcuratives, subcutaneous, untouchables. | |
+5 letters: bureaucratese, bureaucratise, bureaucratism, elucubrations, tubocurarines. | |
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