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(medicine) A person who has the acute form of a disorder, such as schizophrenia. / (linguistics, chiefly historical) An accent or tone higher than others. / (orthography) An acute accent (´).

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acute

IPA(Pronunciation)

/əˈkjuːt/

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(medicine) A person who has the acute form of a disorder, such as schizophrenia. / (linguistics, chiefly historical) An accent or tone higher than others. / (orthography) An acute accent (´).

Japanese Meaning

【医学】急性型の病状（例：統合失調症の急性型を持つ患者） / 【言語学】他の音域よりも高いアクセントや調子（歴史的な用法） / 【正書法】アキュート・アクセント（´）

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The acute was admitted to the psychiatric ward after a sudden onset of severe psychotic symptoms.

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急性期の患者は、突然重度の精神症状が現れて精神科病棟に入院しました。

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(medicine) A person who has the acute form of a disorder, such as schizophrenia.

Anne Marie had been assigned a ‘constant supervision’ status. […] Always avoiding the unrest of the television lounge, she would sometimes join some of the older ‘acutes’ who sat isolated in metal chairs at the end of the hallway and gaze out of the window with them.

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(linguistics, chiefly historical) An accent or tone higher than others.

[I]t would be strange if we wer to recite Homer, raising our voices on the acutes, lowering them on the graves, and managing the circumflexes as well as we could, yet to recite Virgil without any of these regular elevations, depressions, and circumbendibus.

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