CRISIS
\kɹˈa͡ɪsɪs], \kɹˈaɪsɪs], \k_ɹ_ˈaɪ_s_ɪ_s]\
Definitions of CRISIS
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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an unstable situation of extreme danger or difficulty; "they went bankrupt during the economic crisis"
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a crucial stage or turning point in the course of something; "after the crisis the patient either dies or gets better"
By Princeton University
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an unstable situation of extreme danger or difficulty; "they went bankrupt during the economic crisis"
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a crucial stage or turning point in the course of something; "after the crisis the patient either dies or gets better"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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That change in a disease which indicates whether the result is to be recovery or death; sometimes, also, a striking change of symptoms attended by an outward manifestation, as by an eruption or sweat.
By Oddity Software
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A turning point; as, a crisis in history; a critical turn in the course of a disease; emergency; time of danger or difficulty.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Point or time for deciding anything-that is, when it must either terminate or take a new course: the decisive moment:-pl. CRISES.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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This word has been used in various acceptations. Some mean by the crisis of a disease, when it augments or diminishes considerably, considerably, becomes transformed into another, or ceases entirely. Some have used the word to signify only the favourable changes which supervene in disease; others, for the change going on in the acme or violence of the disease. Others, again, have given this name only to a rapid and favourable change, joined to some copious evacuation or eruption; whilst others have applied the term to the symptoms that accompany such change, and not to the change itself; - thus including, under the same denomination, the critical phenomena and the crisis.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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Any decisive occurrence in the course of a disease or of physiological life, such as the supposed turning point of a fever, the advent of puberty, or of the menopause, etc., whether of salutary or of unfavorable import.
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A paroyxsm, usually accompanied with pain, of a certain set of symptoms in the course of a chronic disease, particularly of the nervous system. In this sense the word has been used chiefly by the French writers.
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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