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subacute, a.|sʌbəˈkjuːt|
[sub- 21.]
Somewhat or moderately acute. a. Of an angle.
1752J. Hill Hist. Anim. 220 The pupil is..protended on the anterior part into a subacute angle.
b. Zool. and Bot.
1822J. Parkinson Outl. Oryctol. 222 Plagiostoma..sulcata: ovate, lower part subacute. 1829Loudon Encycl. Plants (1836) 441 Sepals and petals subacute. 1872Oliver Elem. Bot. 307 Involucre..of..subacute, equal bracts.
c. Med. Between acute and chronic. subacute sclerosing panencephalitis, a frequently fatal degenerative disease of the central nervous system, caused by reactivation of a measles virus some years after the original infection.
1833Cycl. Pract. Med. II. 731/2 The fever..symptoms..are..rather of a sub-acute than highly inflammatory character. 1878Habershon Dis. Abdomen (ed. 3) 8 Mucous patches and gummata, which may be mistaken for abscesses or subacute glossitis. 1950J. G. Greenfield in Brain LXXIII. 150 The name subacute sclerosing encephalitis therefore appears fully justified. Dr. van Bogaert's term ‘leuco-encephalitis’ emphasizes the characteristic damage to the white matter, but leaves out of account the cortical changes which are also important. Perhaps the term ‘Panencephalitis’ already adopted by Pette (1942) for forms which attack both grey and white matter could be usefully employed here, i.e. ‘Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis’. 1967Brit. Med. Jrnl. 5 Aug. 352/2 Measles complement-fixing and haemagglutination-inhibiting antibodies have been found in the serum of 22 patients with subacute sclerosing panencephalitis in significantly higher titre than in controls.
d. gen.
1861Sat. Rev. 27 July 90 When a civil servant's mind has reached the stage of subacute discontent. 1896Mrs. Caffyn Quaker Grandmother 139 The sub-acute passion of Harry Tryng blazed out in a few broken sentences.
So subaˈcutely adv., with or in a subacute form.
1852Dana Crust. ii. 1194 Cephalothorax subacutely rostrate. 1872H. A. Nicholson Palæont. 326 Fins sub⁓acutely lobate. |