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CRISIS
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Irregular inflected form: crises
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A crucial stage or turning point in the course of something
Example:
after the crisis the patient either dies or gets better
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("crisis" is a kind of...):
juncture; occasion (an event that occurs at a critical time)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "crisis"):
emergency; exigency; pinch (a sudden unforeseen crisis (usually involving danger) that requires immediate action)
Derivation:
critical (forming or having the nature of a turning point or crisis)
Sense 2
Meaning:
An unstable situation of extreme danger or difficulty
Example:
they went bankrupt during the economic crisis
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("crisis" is a kind of...):
situation (a complex or critical or unusual difficulty)
Attribute:
critical (being in or verging on a state of crisis or emergency)
noncritical; noncrucial (not in a state of crisis or emergency)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "crisis"):
Dunkirk (a crisis in which a desperate effort is the only alternative to defeat)
exigency (a pressing or urgent situation)
critical point; crossroads; juncture (a crisis situation or point in time when a critical decision must be made)
depression; economic crisis; slump (a long-term economic state characterized by unemployment and low prices and low levels of trade and investment)
Derivation:
critical (forming or having the nature of a turning point or crisis)
Context examples:
But it is a real crisis.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
A course between such men would have been enough in itself to cause the keenest interest, apart from its being the crisis which would decide who should be the victors of the day.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
A synthetic, glycomimetic molecule and pan-selectin antagonist, with potential use in a vaso-occlusive crisis.
(Pan-Selectin Antagonist GMI-1070, NCI Thesaurus)
Chronic myelogenous leukemia with or without associated blastic crisis, myeloid or undifferentiated leukemia, and myelodysplastic syndrome related to therapy are all associated with complex chromosomal rearrangements of this gene.
(MECOM wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)
A sudden unforeseen crisis that requires immediate action.
(Emergency, NCI Thesaurus)
It remains unclear, however, whether death is associated with hypercalcemic crisis (uncontrolled or recurrent progressive hypercalcemia) or with advanced disease.
(Hypercalcemia of Malignancy, NCI Thesaurus)
The continuous cell line K-562 was established by Lozzio and Lozzio from the pleural effusion of a 53-year-old female with chronic myelogenous leukemia in terminal blast crises.
(K-562, NCI Thesaurus)
Having no mother, she had no one to advise her at such a crisis.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“You come at a crisis, Watson,” said he.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
It is thus that the great crisis of a man's life springs out at him.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
