adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a good/keen/acute sense of sth
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Pigs have a keen sense of smell.
acute embarrassment (= very strong and not lasting very long )
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There was a moment of acute embarrassment when we realized people were watching.
acute (= becoming serious very quickly )
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A lot of illnesses can be either acute or chronic.
acute medical (= a serious infection that develops suddenly )
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The disease usually occurs as an acute infection of the throat.
acute/deep/high anxiety
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The patient's panic attacks are caused by acute anxiety.
an acute embarrassment (= extremely severe and important )
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Her memoirs were an acute embarrassment to the president.
an acute shortage (= very bad )
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They were suffering because of an acute shortage of doctors and nurses.
good/sharp/acute
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My hearing isn't as good as it used to be.
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Owls and other predatory birds have very acute hearing.
intense/acute/violent etc dislike (= very strong dislike )
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His colleagues regarded him with intense dislike.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
as
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I suffered a dislocation as acute as when I arrived in this country.
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But while cynics often serve as acute commentators, they seldom make for effective organizational leaders.
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The dilemma facing the parents of a seriously ill child was especially acute .
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And the overlap could be especially acute in this deal, because both companies are major producers of missiles and radar.
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Upper respiratory tract infections, especially acute otitis media, are the most important determinants for the development of an effusion.
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This may become an especially acute problem for a newly installed revolutionary regime, for example the Soviet Union.
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It is an especially acute problem when we consider party elites, since they are Janus-faced.
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These are especially acute where a substantial private company is being acquired in a Reverse or Super Class One transaction.
less
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The problem is less acute in specialist fields identified to one particular agency.
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The problem is less acute with phrases and sentences because there the speaker or writer is more fully on his own.
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In botany the theoretical debate was less acute , although the prospect for the practical application of scientific knowledge was greater.
more
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These differences are perhaps more acute on an intellectual level than in reality.
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After two thousand years, the problem is more acute now than it was in the time of Rome.
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For display through a television, one image needs about 800 kilobytes, making the storage problem even more acute .
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Meanwhile, the internal situation was becoming more acute for the Herrera administration.
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Without the newcomers many more villages would be ghost villages and the social demoralization would be even more acute .
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Hers is clearly a more acute and dismal spiral than his own.
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In the middle of a recession this is even more acute .
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It was a whole new experience, and at first it made my own feeling of being a fraud even more acute .
most
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The difficulties are most acute for those associations specialising in short-term accommodation and for those finding housing for refugees and asylum seekers.
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To Warthen, the declines of Bochtler and Veras were most acute .
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That has now been reduced to 15 and the problem is at its most acute in East Swindon.
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The fish's sense of smell is most acute .
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The most acute of Derry's housing problems was the Springtown Camp.
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It has become standard practice to picture the two cultures as standing in the most acute opposition at that time.
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Dissonances are most acute when the dissonant voices are close together.
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Identity crises are often most acute when family and marriage identity collapses.
particularly
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The situation is particularly acute in remand centres and local prisons.
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That responsibility is particularly acute in the Republican race.
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The problem is particularly acute for computers.
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It was seen as particularly acute in June for S4 pupils.
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The problem seemed particularly acute among young gay men and gay men of color.
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The problem of remand prisoners, is particularly acute .
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These feelings were particularly acute for the branch managers in the securities firms.
so
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However, the complications created by roots are not so acute when the tree is standing on level land.
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After a few days I started to develop backache in the lumbar region so acute that I could hardly move.
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There are people who are convinced that the problem is so acute that lasting damage has already been done.
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Novelists are weirdos with sensitivities wide-ranging but so acute that they can hardly bear the company of others.
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Some have hearing which is so acute that they can detect insects as tiny as a midge up to 60 feet away.
very
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The oral shield is large and distinctly pentagonal, the proximal angle is often very acute .
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One would be a very acute , severe degree of disturbance.
■ NOUN
angle
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Nor do they branch off at acute angles or form perfect oblongs.
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Has more yellow on bill than smaller Bewick's Swan, reaching below nostril at an acute angle .
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You must have the ability to turn at acute angles at speed and you must be able to stretch and bend.
anxiety
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Patients taking Ativan and Valium for long periods may suffer acute anxiety when they stop.
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He suffered, like Vincent, from depressive attacks, of a kind now seen as indicating acute anxiety neurosis.
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It is not and an acute anxiety attack will not harm you.
appendicitis
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It can gum up the intestine or cause acute appendicitis .
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True, one can not postpone an operation for acute appendicitis .
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In September 1989 I was taken into hospital with the classic symptoms of acute appendicitis .
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The tough rugby player at first put the pain of his acute appendicitis down to the after-effects of his stag night.
attack
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The ensuing symptoms are often difficult to distinguish from those of an acute attack of asthma.
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Two groups of medications are employed: those used to treat the acute attack and those used prophylactically.
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However it is still worth trying one of the following remedies for an acute attack .
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In addition, oxygen inhalations are given to abort the acute attacks .
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This was the patient who was studied 29 months after his most recent acute attack .
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An acute attack of dizziness while doing my sit-ups.
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These patients were studied 15, 6, and 4 months after their most recent acute attack .
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Is it present constantly, does the sensation wax and wane, or does it come in acute attacks ?
awareness
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The hour of acute awareness was running out into the usual hopeless analysis of a hopeless situation, the usual emotional slush.
bed
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The numbers of acute beds that a service needs has long been a contentious issue.
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Nevertheless, Professor Morgan highlighted concern about whether there was an adequate number of both acute beds and long-term residential places.
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Will they have to contract for rehabilitation services separate from the contract for acute beds ?
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The health sector provides community nursing, long-stay care and day hospital places as well as acute beds .
care
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Intravenous beta blockade also has a place in acute care in selected patients.
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We re licensed as an acute care facility.
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In acute care there will be pressure from rapid bed turnover, which emphasises the importance of early preparation for discharge.
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Yet we continue to respond with an acute care system of high-technology hospitals and highly trained doctors.
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So will closing these hospitals improve acute care ?
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For many patients, acute care came in county or city general hospitals where patients with contagious diseases were sent.
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The structure that I have suggested is sufficiently robust to halt that slide and ensure that acute care remains free throughout.
disease
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In acute diseases it is generally adequate to look only at the symptoms of the acute disease itself.
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In addition, samples containing granulomatous lesions from patients with acute disease should be most likely to contain a causative pathogen.
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Truelove and Witt's criteria were originally developed to classify acute disease attacks and therefore do not include a category for remission.
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Strangles is an acute disease caused by infection with a bacteria called Streptococcus Equi.
embarrassment
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The prospect of Hitler's trial in the aftermath of the failed putsch caused the Bavarian authorities acute embarrassment .
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To my acute embarrassment , the children seemed far more interested in meeting some one from television.
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Early in her first premiership it caused her a moment of acute embarrassment .
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The bust was an acute embarrassment to Curtis who, in 1970, was the anti-smoking lobby's most famous disciple.
form
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Secondly, share-pushing raised in acute form a problem which bedevils much of civil law.
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Most of the conflicts concerning agriculture and amenity also occur in a particularly acute form on the urban fringe.
health
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As might be expected from the study of mortality data acute health problems are not equally distributed throughout the population.
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It appears that for acute health problems older people are little different, in terms of prevalence, from younger age groups.
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It is essential that Londoners have the same rights of access to acute health care as their provincial counterparts.
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A similar trend is evident for acute health problems.
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One source of data about self-reported acute health problems is the General Household Survey.
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The relationship is less obvious for acute health problems.
hepatitis
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Three cases of severe acute hepatitis have been reported in association with piroxicam.
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Only about 30/-40% of patients with hepatitis B develop clinically apparent acute hepatitis.
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Although changes in liver function tests are very rare, three cases of severe acute hepatitis secondary to piroxicam have been reported.
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Over half the patients who acquire acute hepatitis C virus infection develop chronic hepatitis.
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The reported incidence of acute hepatitis B virus in the general population increased by 37 percent from 1979 to 1989.
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Severe acute hepatitis immediately after intravenous amiodarone has been reported four times.
hospital
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Patients still need to recuperate but do not need to stay in an acute hospital to do so.
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This in turn underpins the move to decentralised care and the stripping away of much that is done in acute hospitals today.
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For many patients, irrespective of age, admission to an acute hospital constitutes only one phase of their medical career.
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They have demonstrated that it is possible to construct systems of clinical budgeting in acute hospitals .
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Little is known about the attitudes of older people towards the services offered by the acute hospital sector.
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At the time of his death he was a member of the review team on acute hospital services in Northern Ireland.
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These were acute hospitals providing a full range of services to a population of about 100,000 - 150,000.
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Those aged 65 + are, therefore, the largest single consumer group of the services provided by acute hospitals .
illness
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However, unless an accident or acute illness was associated with onset, memory problems are likely to confuse the result.
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Young physicians, trained in medical school according to an acute illness model, found Carville an unusual place.
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Let us look at an example of acute illness that would naturally resolve in time.
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If you have built up some experience using the remedies then you will find the 30 an excellent potency for acute illness .
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In treating acute illnesses there are only two outcomes to giving the wrong low potency remedy.
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They may be impatient, hurried and quick tempered in an acute illness .
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The three month limit should cover most acute illnesses , especially if it can be extended when necessary.
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Some one might question why acute illness should merit free care while chronic ones should not.
infection
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The rare acute infection shows dyspnoea and violent cough, with white-yellow, occasionally bloody, sputum.
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This gave way to an acute infection of the liver, and on 9 February, 1883, he died.
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In contrast, an IgG and IgA response to this antigen has been reported in children with acute infection .
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In acute infections , there is anaemia and lassitude and occasionally respiratory embarrassment.
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Viruses, cancer and acute Infection Viruses attack cells by several distinct routes.
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Little is known of the fundamental aspects of the immunology of chronic infection versus acute infection in giardiasis.
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Monica Dunnell, Terry's wife, is gradually recovering from an acute infection .
liver
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In this regard, increased plasma renin activity and decreased renal prostaglandin production have been reported in patients with acute liver failure.
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Mrs Barnett, 35, suffered acute liver failure after a rare reaction to a drug.
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The site of increased resistance in patients with acute liver failure has not been clearly established.
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The aetiology of acute liver failure was viral hepatitis in all but one patients.
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This may indicate that other factors also play an important role in increasing hepatic venous pressure gradient in acute liver failure.
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The present study also shows a high prevalence of ascites in patients with acute liver failure.
lymphoblastic
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Central nervous system treatment in childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia: long-term follow-up of patients diagnosed between 1973 and 1985.
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Second neoplasms after acute lymphoblastic leukemia in childhood.
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Late multifocal gliomas in adolescents previously treated for acute lymphoblastic leukemia.
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Conventional compared with individualized chemotherapy for childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia.
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Second malignancies in patients treated for childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia.
pain
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This was a drug that would ease the acute pain that crucifixion brought to the victim.
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One of the most promising areas to find answers is in the treatment of acute pain .
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They may suffer sickness, vomiting or acute pain , but they do not die.
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Chronic pain is continuous and unassociated with the physiological responses to acute pain such as sweating and tachycardia.
pancreatitis
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Four patients died of acute pancreatitis and its complications.
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The values of amylase and lipase activity are significantly elevated in acute pancreatitis and obstruction of the pancreatic duct.
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In this study, 43% of patients developed acute pancreatitis .
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Iii most cases of acute pancreatitis , the lipase activity Stays elevated longer than amylase activity. 321-328.
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The therapeutic implications of the present findings are to be established in acute pancreatitis .
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PLA2 has been considered earlier to act mainly as a harmful agent in the pathology of various inflammatory diseases including acute pancreatitis .
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In acute pancreatitis , the catalytic activity of PLA2 in serum correlates with the severity of the disease.
phase
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Similarly, there are mild disturbances only of acute phase reactants in chronic viral hepatitis.
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Compounds containing aspirin or acetaminophen with or without codeine and nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs are useful for pain control during the acute phase .
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The acute phase response also involves changes in the plasma concentrations of a number of liver synthesised proteins.
problem
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From an observer's point of view this adhoc approach to eternity and salvation poses acute problems of description.
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Chronic and acute problems associated with sickle cell anaemia.
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Because Britain had been producing nuclear power longer than most other countries, this was a particularly acute problem .
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This may become an especially acute problem for a newly installed revolutionary regime, for example the Soviet Union.
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It is an especially acute problem when we consider party elites, since they are Janus-faced.
sense
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Furthermore, he had an acute sense of deviation from the norm in any society.
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This changeless spell brought an acute sense of temporariness and the feeling of inevitability fading with the dusk.
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His acute sense of observation was remarkable, and his pictures show how sensitive he was to his surroundings.
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He has an acute sense of priority.
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As he did so, he felt a great sadness, an acute sense of loss, filling his entire being.
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I had an acute sense of the absence of Alison, of the probably permanent loss of her.
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The theory would have to be tested, of course, but the body has an acute sense of self-preservation, you know.
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There's an acute sense of having been betrayed or wronged.
service
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As part of its general consultation process, Greater Glasgow health board consulted in respect of its acute services strategy for Glasgow.
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It now seems likely that 65 percent. of acute services could be trust-based by April 1993.
shortage
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In both areas there is an acute shortage of expertise at the Garden.
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And once again the acute shortage of materials was noticeable.
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They acknowledged that there was an acute shortage of nurses throughout the country and concluded that a training scheme should be organised.
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The acute shortage of time was a problem that everyone felt.
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Although recently the Association has been enabled to take on some 250 full-time archaeologists, there is still an acute shortage .
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Will he accept that there is indeed an acute shortage of intensive care beds for children?
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There's an acute shortage of good land.
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Gedge was determined that the band would release a single, despite an acute shortage of money.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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acute tuberculosis
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De Tocqueville was an acute observer of American ways.
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In San Diego, the shortage of skilled workers is acute .
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Nowhere is the problem more acute than Los Angeles County, where gang-related homicide is on the increase.
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Patients suffering from acute depression may well need medication.
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Patients with acute lower back pain often do well with bed rest and painkillers.
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She was taken to the hospital suffering from acute appendicitis.
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Simmons' book is an acute analysis of Middle Eastern history.
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Solving the problem will require acute perception and subtle communication.
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The impact of the problem has been especially acute in New England.
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There are acute shortages of food and medical equipment.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Boston employers are facing an acute labour shortage with potentially serious consequences for economic growth.
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I suffered a dislocation as acute as when I arrived in this country.
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It was seen as particularly acute in June for S4 pupils.
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The more serious effects include acute confusional states, tachycardia, urinary retention, and aggravation of glaucoma.
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The problem is less acute with phrases and sentences because there the speaker or writer is more fully on his own.
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There are no studies on the effect of acute alcohol intake on gastric secretion in the chronic alcoholic patient.