subacute disease

A disease in which symptoms are less pronounced but more prolonged than in an acute disease, intermediate between acute and chronic disease. See also: disease. Medical Dictionary, © 2009 Farlex and Partners.

1. What does subacute mean in medical terms?
2. What is the difference between acute subacute and chronic?
3. What does subacute pain feel like?
4. What is Peracute disease?
5. How long is subacute?
6. What is an example of subacute care?
7. What is subacute stroke?
8. What is subacute cough?
9. What is subacute inflammation?
10. What is the difference between acute and subacute endocarditis?
11. What's a chronic injury?

What does subacute mean in medical terms?

Subacute: Rather recent onset or somewhat rapid change. In contrast, acute indicates very sudden onset or rapid change, and chronic indicates indefinite duration or virtually no change.

What is the difference between acute subacute and chronic?

Chronic pain is pain that has been present for more than 3 months (Merskey 1979; Merskey and Bogduk 1994). Subacute pain is a subset of acute pain: It is pain that has been present for at least 6 weeks but less than 3 months (van Tulder et al. 1997).

What does subacute pain feel like?

Subacute pain is pain that lasts from 2 weeks to 3 months. During this stage, the inflammation has settled with formation of scar tissue as part of the healing process. Pain is now intermittent and mechanical, caused by certain movements that may irritate the injured structure or scar tissue.

What is Peracute disease?

Peracute, acute, or subacute, fatal soil-born infect1on of mammals include man caused by Bacillus anthracis characterized by septicemia, sudden rapid death with exudation of tarry blood from body orifices, failure of blood to clot absence of rigor mortis and spleenomegaly.

How long is subacute?

The care of acute (and recurring acute) injuries is often divided into 3 stages with general time frames: acute (0–4 days), subacute (5–14 days), and postacute (after 14 days).

What is an example of subacute care?

Subacute care units provide "brain injury rehabilitation, high intensity stroke and orthopedic programs, ventilator programs, complex wound care, specialized infusion therapy, or post surgical recovery programs...in specialized units of long-term care facilities."

What is subacute stroke?

Subacute management of ischemic stroke refers to the period from when the decision to not employ thrombolytics is made up until two weeks after the stroke occurred. Family physicians are often involved in the care of patients during the subacute period.

What is subacute cough?

A cough may be acute, subacute, or chronic depending on how long it lasts. Acute coughs last less than three weeks and usually are caused by the common cold or other infections such as sinusitis or pneumonia. Subacute coughs last three to eight weeks and remain after the initial cold or respiratory infection is over.

What is subacute inflammation?

Subacute inflammation is the period between acute and chronic inflammation and may last 2 to 6 weeks. Chronic Inflammation. Chronic inflammation is also referred to as slow, long-term inflammation lasting for prolonged periods of several months to years.

What is the difference between acute and subacute endocarditis?

Acute infective endocarditis develops suddenly and may become life threatening within days. Subacute infective endocarditis (also called subacute bacterial endocarditis) develops gradually and subtly over a period of weeks to several months but also can be life threatening.

What's a chronic injury?

A chronic injury is the result of prolonged, repetitive motion that is particularly common in endurance sports such as swimming, running and cycling.