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Can you give me a brief description or meaning of an acute illness w/ systemic symptoms & examples of these illnesses.

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Systemic.: This would refer to an acute illness someplace in the body that produces symptoms that reach head to toe. An example could be acute sinusitis, a bacterial infection of the sinuses that can cause fever, chills, sweats, generalized achiness, generalized weakness.

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Answered 4/20/2021

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