subacute
/ˌsʌbəˈkjuːt/
adjective
- Of a disease or medical condition: between acute and chronic in severity or duration; less severe than acute but more persistent.
- Doctors monitored her subacute infection closely to prevent it from becoming chronic.
- Subacute pain can linger for months after an injury, even after the initial healing.
- The patient was diagnosed with subacute thyroiditis, which caused fatigue for several weeks.
- Moderately sharp or pointed; not extremely acute.
- He used a subacute angle on the chisel to avoid cutting too deeply into the wood.
- The mountain's peak was subacute, rising steeply but not to a razor-sharp point.
- The knife had a subacute edge, good for slicing bread but not for delicate carving.
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