) The apical releases, and, are sometimes called " grave ", because their pitch is dominated by low frequencies ; while the laminal releases, and, are sometimes called " acute ", because they are dominated by high frequencies.

( At least in the Nǁng language and Juǀʼhoan, this is associated with a difference in the placement of the rear articulation: " grave " clicks are uvular, whereas " acute " clicks are pharyngeal.

Some diacritical marks, such as the acute ( ´ ) and grave ( ` ) are often called accents.

Examples from English are the diaeresis in naïve and Noël, which show that the vowel with the diaeresis mark is pronounced separately from the preceding vowel ; the acute and grave accents, which can indicate that a final vowel is to be pronounced, as in saké and poetic breathèd, and the cedilla under the " c " in the borrowed French word façade, which shows it is pronounced rather than.

* accent marks ( thus called because the acute, the grave and the circumflex accent were originally used to indicate different types of pitch accents, in the polytonic transcription of Greek )

These diacritics are used in addition to the acute, grave, and circumflex accents and the diaeresis:

In modern Microsoft Windows and Linux operating systems, the keyboard layouts US International and UK International feature dead keys that allow one to type Latin letters with the acute, grave, circumflex, diæresis, tilde, and cedilla found in Western European languages ( specifically, those combinations found in the ISO Latin-1 character set ) directly: "+ e gives ë, ~+ o gives õ, etc.

:* Welsh uses the circumflex, diaeresis, acute and grave accents on its seven vowels a, e, i, o, u, w, y.

The acute and the grave accent indicate stress and vowel height, the cedilla marks the result of a historical palatalization, the diaeresis mark indicates either a hiatus, or that the letter u is pronounced when the graphemes gü, qü are followed by e or i, the interpunct (·) distinguishes the different values of ll / l · l.

* French uses the grave accent ( accent grave ), the acute accent ( accent aigu ), the circumflex ( accent circonflexe ), the cedilla ( cédille ), and the diaeresis ( tréma ).

* Italian mainly has the acute and the grave ( à, è / é, ì, ò / ó, ù ), typically to indicate a stressed syllable that would not be stressed under the normal rules of pronunciation but sometimes also to distinguish between words that are otherwise spelled the same way ( e. g. " e ", and ; " è ", is ).

* Lithuanian uses the acute, grave and tilde in dictionaries to indicate stress types in the language's pitch accent system.

The acute and the grave accent indicate stress and vowel height, the cedilla marks the result of a historical palatalization, the diaeresis mark indicates either a hiatus, or that the letter u is pronounced when the graphemes gü, qü are followed by e or i, the interpunct (·) distinguishes the different values of nh / n · h and sh / s · h.

The acute and the circumflex accent indicate stress and vowel height, the grave accent indicates crasis, the tilde represents nasalization, and the cedilla marks the result of a historical palatalization.

* Vietnamese uses the acute accent ( dấu sắc ), the grave accent ( dấu huyền ), the tilde ( dấu ngã ), the dot below ( dấu nặng ) and the hook above ( dấu hỏi ) on vowels as tone indicators.

* Welsh uses the circumflex, diaeresis, acute and grave accents on its seven vowels a, e, i, o, u, w, y.

In Hanyu Pinyin, the four tones of Mandarin Chinese are denoted by the macron ( first tone ), acute ( second tone ), caron ( third tone ) and grave ( fourth tone ) diacritics.

He used diacritical marks on syllables to indicate which should be drawn out ( acute e. g. á ) and which uttered quickly ( grave e. g. è ).

He had a disfiguring skin disease, and more seriously, suffered acute attacks of some grave illness in June 1405 ; April 1406 ; June 1408 ; during the winter of 1408 – 09 ; December 1412 ; and finally a fatal bout in March 1413.

The different homophones ( or, more precisely, the different cuneiform signs that denote them ) are marked with different numbers by convention, "< sub > 2 </ sub >" and "< sub > 3 </ sub >" being often replaced by acute accent and grave accent diacritics respectively.

:* Faroese uses acute accents and other special letters.

:* Icelandic uses acute accents and other special letters.

:* Irish uses acute accents, called fadas.

Formerly acute accents could be used on á, ó and é, which were used to indicate a specific vowel quality.

Grave and acute accents are used on a very small number of words, mostly loanwords.

* acute accents ( e. g. á ) on a, e, i, o, u, w, y, A, E, I, O, U, W, Y are generated by pressing the AltGr key together with the letter, or AltGr and apostrophe, followed by the letter ( see note below );

For acute accents the AltGr and apostrophe method should be used.

Various contractions result in long vowels ; stressed vowels ( marked with acute accents in Berger's transcription ) tend to be longer and less " open " than unstressed ones ( as opposed to ).

The shape of the circumflex was originally a combination of the acute and grave accents (^), as it marked a syllable contracted from two vowels: an acute-accented vowel and a non-accented vowel ( all non-accented syllables in Ancient Greek were once marked with a grave accent ).

This version also listed eight accents ( acute accent ( ´ ), grave accent ( ` ), circumflex ( ^ ), caron ( ˇ ), macron ( ¯ ), tilde ( ˜ ), trema ( ¨ ), and a superscript dot (˙) and nine punctuation marks (?

It also occasionally uses circumflexes, diaereses, acute accents and grave accents on its seven vowels ( a, e, i, o, u, w, y ), but accented characters are not regarded as separate letters of the alphabet.

It also occasionally uses acute accents, grave accents, circumflexes, and diaereses on its five vowels ( a, e, i, o, u ), but accented characters are not regarded as separate letters of the alphabet.

It can be combined with acute or grave accents, if necessary.

It may or may not incorporate an intentional dropping of acute accents in Sibérie / Siberie and m ' était / m ' etait.

To interpret this, it is necessary to understand that the French language usually drops accents ( diacritics ) on capital letters, but nevertheless very often retains the accent for capital É ( E with acute accent ) when it occurs in a word-final or near word-final position, because in this position it could be mistaken for silent " e " and the word could be mistaken for another word: eg, conté ( told ), conte ( tale ).

The purely cognitive or informational problems are often acute.

I wish he was with me now, she thought, and that we were both the ages we are and doing what was once only pretense and acute embarrassment.

* Electrolyte solutions are used to replace lost fluids and salts in acute cases.

ACE inhibitors are used primarily to treat hypertension, although they may also be prescribed for cardiac failure, diabetic nephropathy, chronic renal failure, renal involvement in systemic sclerosis ( scleroderma renal crisis ), left ventricular systolic dysfunction, and acute myocardial infarction.

All the dangers and obstacles characteristic of narrow waterways are present and acute in this critical sea lane.

Red deer are an exception, and in them the disease may be as acute as in sheep.

Benzodiazepines are sometimes used in the treatment of acute anxiety, as they bring about rapid and marked or moderate relief of symptoms in most individuals ; however, they are not recommended beyond 2 – 4 weeks of use due to risks of tolerance and dependence and a lack of long-term effectiveness.

* Benzodiazepines are also used to treat the acute panic caused by hallucinogen intoxication.

Protracted symptoms tend to resemble those seen during the first couple of months of withdrawal but usually are of a sub acute level of severity.

Although data are still lacking, carbamazepine appears to be as effective and safe as lithium for the treatment of bipolar disorder, both in the acute and maintenance phase.

In the early, acute stage, symptoms are mild and usually produce no more than local swelling at the site of infection.

As chemotherapy affects cell division, tumors with high growth fractions ( such as acute myelogenous leukemia and the aggressive lymphomas, including Hodgkin's disease ) are more sensitive to chemotherapy, as a larger proportion of the targeted cells are undergoing cell division at any time.

Stool and swab samples collected in the acute stage of the disease, before antibiotics have been administered, are the most useful specimens for laboratory diagnosis.

Frequently observed symptoms in this disorder are acute para-or quadraparesis, dysphagia, dysarthria, diplopia, loss of consciousness, and other neurological symptoms associated with brainstem damage.

Ethanol's acute effects are largely due to its nature as a central nervous system depressant, and are dependent on blood alcohol concentrations: