The phrase "acute starvation" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a severe and intense state of hunger or lack of food, often in a medical or humanitarian context.
Example: "The region is facing acute starvation due to the prolonged drought and lack of food supplies."
Alternatives: "severe hunger" or "extreme malnutrition."
Two-thirds have unacceptable levels of wasting, often associated with acute starvation.
For adolescents, long-term bone and brain development are the primary concerns, according to Dr. Joel Jahraus, who has dealt with cases of acute starvation and is the director of primary care medicine at the Remuda Ranch, a treatment center for anorexia and bulimia in Wickenburg, Ariz.
In our experiment, we subjected the larvae to chronic starvation instead of acute starvation.
A very early response to acute starvation is activation of AMPK.
Acute starvation assays have been described previously (Grönke et al., 2007).
Acute starvation, which is able to prevent increases in serum leptin, delayed EAE onset and attenuated clinical symptoms [ 42].
Acute protein starvation may lead to the cessation of hair growth and constriction of the hair shafts.
A close link between carbon metabolism and protein synthesis is necessary to prevent acute carbon starvation in growing tissues where most of protein synthesis contributes to building the new biomass (Smith and Stitt 2007; Piques et al. 2009).
As part of the UN Millennium Project, which one of us (Jeffrey Sachs) directed on behalf of then-UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, the Hunger Task Force found that chronic undernourishment accounts for more than 90percentt of global hunger, while acute undernourishment (starvation) addressed by Plumpy'Nut accounts for less than 10percentt.
Our program is funded by USAID and aims to help health centers and communities rehabilitate children suffering from acute malnutrition ("starvation" in common parlance) and to work to improve infant and young child feeding practices that could help prevent malnutrition in the first place.
Thus far, our study demonstrated that larvae lacking buffy were unable to survive acute nutrient starvation.
