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sharp or severe in effect; intense: acute sorrow; an acute pain.
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extremely great or serious; crucial; critical: an acute shortage of oil.
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(of disease) brief and severe ( opposed to chronic). |
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| a persistent and lasting disease or medical condition, or one that has developed slowly |
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| is one of the many possible double helical structures of DNA. |
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| Periosteum is divided into an outer "fibrous layer" and inner "cambium layer" (or "osteogenic layer"). |
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| is a form of fibertissue.[1] It is one of the four types of tissue in traditional classifications (the others being epithelial, muscle, and nervous tissue). |
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| a group of subjects with a common defining characteristic — typically age group |
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* Context (language use), the relevant constraints of the communicative situation that influence language use, language variation, and discourse
* Archaeological context, an event in time which has been preserved in the archaeological record |
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| is the study of the process by which organisms grow and develop |
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| to describe the changes and alterations that take place on skeletal (biological) material in a burial context. Specifically, diagenesis “is the cumulative physical, chemical and biological environment; these processes will modify an organic object’s original chemical and/or structural properties and will govern its ultimate fate, in terms of preservation or destruction |
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| s a systematic method used to identify unknowns. This method, essentially a process of elimination, is used by taxonomists to identify living organisms, and by physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and other trained medical professionals to diagnose the specific disease in a patient. |
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| is the defect of the teeth in which the tooth enamel is hard but thin and deficient in amount[1]. This is caused by defective enamel matrix formation with a deficiency in the cementing substance |
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| is the study of patterns of health and illness and associated factors at the population level. It is the cornerstone method of public health research, and helps inform evidence-based medicine for identifying risk factors for disease and determining optimal treatment approaches to clinical practice and for preventative medicine. |
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| evolutionary-ecological model |
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| es at the intersection of ecology and evolutionary biology. It approaches the study of ecology in a way that explicitly considers the evolutionary histories of species and the interactions between them. |
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