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In medicine, describing a disease as acute denotes that it is of recent onset; it occasionally denotes a short duration.The quantification of how much time constitutes "short" and "recent" varies by disease and by context, but the core denotation of "acute" is always qualitatively in contrast with "chronic", which denotes long-lasting disease (for example, in acute leukaemia and chronic ...
Brief psychotic disorder—according to the classifications of mental disorders DSM-IV-TR and DSM-5—is a psychotic condition involving the sudden onset of at least one psychotic symptom (such as disorganized thought/speech, delusions, hallucinations, or grossly disorganized or catatonic behavior) lasting 1 day to 1 month, often accompanied by emotional turmoil.
A thunderclap headache is a headache that is severe and has a sudden onset. It is defined as a severe headache that takes seconds to minutes to reach maximum intensity. [1] [2] Although approximately 75% are attributed to "primary" headaches—headache disorder, non-specific headache, idiopathic thunderclap headache, or uncertain headache disorder—the remainder are secondary to other causes ...
In early research Rage syndrome is sometimes referred to as sudden-onset idiopathic aggression (SOIA) to distinguish it from idiopathic disease, and later as sudden-onset aggression (SOA). Rage syndrome has no medical connection to rabies, for which its name is sometimes mistaken (from the Latin noun rabiēs, meaning "rage").
Investigators are continuing to try and work out why more than 160 children in the UK have been hit by sudden onset hepatitis. An update from the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) on Friday shows ...
Bouffée délirante is "an acute, brief nonorganic psychosis that typically presents with a sudden onset of fully formed, thematically variable delusions and hallucinations against a background of some degree of clouding of consciousness, unstable and fluctuating affect, and spontaneous recovery with some probability of relapse."
Cancer and sudden induced menopause gave me the opportunity to prematurely confront my own mortality and decide what’s important to me: my family, my health, my friends, my career.
It gives more definition to testing dizziness and balance, hallmark signs of posterior strokes. NEWFAST also addresses the sudden onset of a severe headache and vomiting that often accompany bleeds in the head. [7] NEW - means a NEW onset of symptoms (generally within the past 24 hours, but a sudden onset in general). N - Nausea/Vomiting ...