agudização
See also: agudización
Portuguese
Etymology
From agudizar (“to worsen”) + -ção.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /a.ɡu.d͡ʒi.zaˈsɐ̃w̃/ [a.ɡu.d͡ʒi.zaˈsɐ̃ʊ̯̃]
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ɐ.ɡu.di.zɐˈsɐ̃w̃/ [ɐ.ɣu.ði.zɐˈsɐ̃w̃]
- Hyphenation: a‧gu‧di‧za‧ção
Noun
agudização f (plural agudizações)
- worsening
- Synonym: agudizamento
- (medicine) augmentation (the stage of a disease during which symptoms increase or continue)
- Synonym: anábase
Further reading
- “agudização”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025