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<p>In <a href="page.php?w=medicine">medicine</a>, describing a <a href="page.php?w=disease">disease</a> as <b>acute</b> <a href="page.php?w=denotation">denotes</a> that it is of recent <a href="page.php?w=wikt%3Aonset">onset</a>; it occasionally denotes a short <a href="page.php?w=wikt%3Aduration">duration</a>. The <a href="page.php?w=quantification_%28science%29">quantification</a> of how much time constitutes "short" and "recent" varies by disease and by context, but the core denotation of "acute" is always <a href="page.php?w=qualitative_property">qualitatively</a></p><p>
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