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Subacute

adjective

Less than acute; relating to a disease present in a person with no symptoms of it.

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subacute bacterial endocarditis

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subacute sclerosing panencephalitis

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... Britain's Long Ashton Research Station[6], has laid the foundation for diagnosing mineral deficiencies by leaf symptoms. These are reliable indicators of what nutrients to furnish plants when they are distinct and easily recognized. But for subacute deficiencies, plant analysis and injections are resorted to. Injections of manganese sulphate as pellets into holes drilled in trunks of cherry trees caused orchards that had been barren, to bear heavy ...

— Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Thirty-Seventh Annual Report • Various

... caused by a prostatic abscess following gonorrhea. In this case there was thrombosis of the pelvic veins. Hutchinson mentions a man who, thirty years before, after six days' exposure on a raft, had lost both legs by gangrene. At the age of sixty-six he was confined to bed by subacute bronchitis, and during this period his whole penis became gangrenous and sloughed off. This is quite unusual, as gangrene is usually associated with fever; it is more than likely that the gangrene of the leg was not connected with ...

— Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine • George M. Gould

Words linked to "Subacute" : subacute inclusion body encephalitis, subacute sclerosing panencephalitis, acute, subacute sclerosing leukoencephalitis, subacute bacterial endocarditis