acute care

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a⋅cute-care

[uh-kyoot-kair]

–adjective (of a hospital)

providing emergency services and general medical and surgical treatment for acute disorders rather than long-term residential care for chronic illness.

Origin:
1975–80

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acute care
n. Short-term medical treatment, usually in a hospital, for patients having an acute illness or injury or recovering from surgery.

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Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: acute care
Function: adjective
: providing or concerned with short-term medical care especially for serious acute disease or trauma <acute carehospitals> acute care nursing unit> —compare CHRONIC CARE, INTENSIVE CARE —acute care noun

Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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