The Collaborative International Dictionary
Subacute \Sub`a*cute"\, a. Moderalely acute.
Wiktionary
a. 1 (context medicine English) Less than acute 2 (context biology English) Having a pointed tip, but with a broad or slightly rounded angle.
WordNet
adj. less than acute; relating to a disease present in a person with no symptoms of it
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "subacute".
Articular rheumatism, in the subacute or chronic form, is frequently observed in medical practice.
In subacute or chronic muscular rheumatism, pain is excited only when the affected muscles are contracted with unusual force, and then it is similar to that experienced in the acute form.
This is a subacute or chronic form of inflammation of the mucous membrane of the bronchial tubes, of a very persistent character and variable intensity.
Four hundred miles from Memphis, Lee-Ann stepped out of the elevator into the subacute neuro ward of the Metro East Hospital.
At the age of sixty-six he was confined to bed by subacute bronchitis, and during this period his whole penis became gangrenous and sloughed off.
The letter was from a lady called Felicity whose son Alex, once an extremely intelligent and healthy boy, had been struck down with the brain virus, subacute sclerosing pan-encephalitis.