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Acute Disease

"Acute Disease" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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Disease having a short and relatively severe course.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Acute Disease" by people in this website by year, and whether "Acute Disease" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 557 publications over 31 distinct years, with a maximum of 28 publications in 2004
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