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crisis

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crisis
Pathol a sudden change, for better or worse, in the course of a disease

crisis [′krī·səs]
(medicine)
The turning point in the course of a disease.
(psychology)
The psychological events associated with a specific stage of life, as an identity crisis or developmental crisis.


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A theatrical friend of mine here, whom I had hoped to interest in our undertaking, proves, unhappily, to be at a crisis in his career.
the crisis -- The danger is past, And the lingering illness Is over at last -- And the fever called "Living" Is conquered at last.
In that supreme crisis of the empire and a human soul, when the mutinous soldiers were thronging about the royal tent and clamouring for the blood of the favourite, it was the Emperor who sent her forth -- lily pale,
 
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