sudden onset

collocation in English

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sudden
adjective
uk
/ˈsʌd.ən/us
/ˈsʌd.ən/
happening or done quickly and ...
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Suddenonsetof acute rotation vertigo lasting several days with gradual resolution would suggest a labyrinthitis of viral or vascular aetiology.
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Moving in with others appeared to be a response to thesuddenonsetof a disability.
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Patients presented withsuddenonsetof fever, a maculopapular rash with large individual macules, and arthralgia.
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The presentation was ofsuddenonsetof watery diarrhoea, colicky abdominal pain and nausea with or without vomiting.
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Remember elderly subjects may just describesuddenonset, intense disequilibrium rather than vertigo with these movements.
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As asuddenonsetof spectral energy produces a heightened auditory nerve response, those articulatory configurations which produce an abrupt rise in spectral energy are most valued by phonological systems.
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Although the condition may be acute or chronic, it is the acute closed-angle glaucoma that causessuddenonsetof severe constant pain centred on the affected eye.
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Diarrhoea due to food poisoning has asuddenonset, and vomiting is a prominent feature.
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The clinical picture in this child, with asuddenonsetof severe cyanosis without signs of any type of illness, was very suggestive of occlusion of the shunt.
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And although words may have asuddenonsetof use, they often die out gradually, which is why the language of older speakers may sound oldfashioned.
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Peroutka et al. (1982) described the case of a 72-year-old woman withsuddenonsetof complex auditory and visual hallucinations, including third-person verbal hallucinations, following a right temporoparietooccipital infarction.
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Is there any connection between the most unusually short lists of speakers in the debate today and thesuddenonsetof this illness?
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Certain conditions have asuddenonsetowing to accident or illness, such as head injury, stroke or cancers of the brain and spine.
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In its most severe form asuddenonsetof acute watery diarrhoea can lead to death by severe dehydration and kidney failure.
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That is thesuddenonsetof sleep.
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