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n. A crucial or decisive point or situation; a turning point.

n. An unstable condition, as in political, social, or economic affairs, involving an impending abrupt or decisive change.

n. A sudden change in the course of a disease or fever, toward either improvement or deterioration.

n. An emotionally stressful event or traumatic change in a person's life.

n. A point in a story or drama when a conflict reaches its highest tension and must be resolved.

n. A crucial or decisive point or situation; a turning point.

n. An unstable situation, in political, social, economic or military affairs, especially one involving an impending abrupt change.

n. A sudden change in the course of a disease, usually at which the patient is expected to recover or die.

n. A traumatic or stressful change in a person's life.

n. A point in a drama at which a conflict reaches a peak before being resolved.

n. The point of time when it is to be decided whether any affair or course of action must go on, or be modified or terminate; the decisive moment; the turning point.

n. That change in a disease which indicates whether the result is to be recovery or death; sometimes, also, a striking change of symptoms attended by an outward manifestation, as by an eruption or sweat.

n. A vitally important or decisive state of things; the point of culmination; a turning-point; the point at which a change must come, either for the better or the worse, or from one state of things to another: as, a ministerial crisis; a financial crisis; a crisis in a person's mental condition.

n. In medicine, the change of a disease which indicates the nature of its termination; that change which prognosticates recovery or death. The term is sometimes also used to denote the symptoms accompanying the condition.

n. A paroxysm of acute localized pain or of functional disturbance of some organ accompanying tabes dorsalis or other degenerative affection of the spinal cord.

n. an unstable situation of extreme danger or difficulty

n. a crucial stage or turning point in the course of something

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