| subacute inflammation |
a condition intermediate between chronic and acute inflammation, exhibiting some of the characteristics of each.
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| subacute necrotizing encephalomyelopathy |
an encephalopathy of unclear clinical and pathological criteria, causing neuropathologic damage like that of the Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome. It occurs in two forms: The infantile form, which may be the same as pyruvate carboxylase deficiency, is characterized by degeneration of gray matter with necrosis and capillary proliferation in the brain stem; hypotonia, seizures, and dementia; anorexia and vomiting; slow or arrested development; and ocular and respiratory disorders. ...
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| subacute sclerosing panencephalitis |
(SSPE) a rare and devastating form of leukoencephalitis usually affecting children and adolescents. Insidious in onset, it characteristically produces progressive cerebral dysfunction over a course of several weeks or months and death within a year. Pathologically, in addition to the lesions of the white matter, there are demyelination and intranuclear inclusion bodies in nerve cells and oligodendroglia. ...
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| subacute |
Disease characterized by an onset that is not as abrupt as in the acute form and with symptoms less severe and of shorter duration than chronic. [Encarta]
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| subacute |
less than completely acute, between acute and chronic
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