| acute necrotizing encephalitis |
encephalitis characterized by a particularly destructive reaction in the brain; cf. herpes simplex e. and acute necrotizing hemorrhagic encephalomyelitis.
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| acute stress disorder |
[DSM-IV] an anxiety disorder characterized by development of anxiety and dissociative and other symptoms within one month following exposure to an extremely traumatic event, the symptoms including reexperiencing the event, avoidance of trauma-related stimuli, anxiety or increased arousal, and some or all of the following: a subjective sense of diminished emotional responsiveness, numbing, or detachment, derealization, depersonalization, and amnesia for aspects of the event. ...
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| acute diffuse serous choroiditis |
1. a disease of sudden onset in adults, characterized by widespread, yellowish, fundal edema, by retinal detachment with loss of sight, and by later retinal reattachment with probable restoration of sight. 2. Harada's syndrome.
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| acute febrile polyneuritis |
acute idiopathic polyneuritis, rapidly progressive ascending motor neuron paralysis of unknown etiology, frequently after an enteric or respiratory infection. An autoimmune mechanism following viral infection has been postulated. ...
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| acute hematogenous osteomyelitis |
osteomyelitis resulting from localization of blood-borne bacteria in bone, usually seen in the long bones of children following blunt trauma or adjacent infection; the most common infecting organism is Staphylococcus aureus. When it spreads to the joints it is known as septic or bacterial arthritis.
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