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Critical Illness

Medical Definition:	A disease or state in which death is possible or imminent.
Guide Notes:	IM GEN only; do not index with specific dis of critically ill patient unless particularly discussed & then NIM with no qualif; /ther: consider also CRITICAL CARE
Previously Indexed:	Critical Care (1975-1991)

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