Critical or Critically may refer to:
*Critical, or critical but stable,
medical state
Medical state is a term used to describe a hospital patient's health status, or condition. The term is most commonly used in information given to the news media, and is rarely used as a clinical description by physicians.
Two aspects of the pat ...
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**Critical, or
intensive care medicine
Intensive care medicine, also called critical care medicine, is a medical specialty that deals with seriously or critically ill patients who have, are at risk of, or are recovering from conditions that may be life-threatening. It includes pro ...
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Critical juncture, a discontinuous change studied in the social sciences.
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Critical Software, a company specializing in mission and business critical information systems
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Critical theory
A critical theory is any approach to social philosophy that focuses on society and culture to reveal, critique and challenge power structures. With roots in sociology and literary criticism, it argues that social problems stem more from s ...
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Critically endangered, a risk status for wild species
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Criticality (status)
In the operation of a nuclear reactor, criticality is the state in which a nuclear chain reaction is self-sustaining—that is, when reactivity is zero. In supercritical states, reactivity is greater than zero.
Applications
Criticality is the no ...
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Art, entertainment, and media
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''Critical'' (novel), a medical thriller written by Robin Cook
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''Critical'' (TV series), a Sky 1 TV series
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"Critical" (''Person of Interest''), an episode of the American television drama series ''Person of Interest''
*"Critical", a 1999 single by
Zion I
Zion I was an American hip hop project founded by MC and producer Baba Zumbi (real name Stephen Gaines) in Oakland, California. K-Genius and Amp Live were also project members.
Career
Originally formed as a group, Zion I released the debut s ...
People
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Cr1TiKaL
Charles Christopher White Jr. (born August 2, 1994), better known as MoistCr1TiKaL (pronounced "moist critical") or simply Cr1TiKaL, is an American YouTuber, Twitch streamer, and musician who is known for his commentary videos on YouTube, as we ...
(born 1994), an American YouTuber and Twitch streamer
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Critic
A critic is a person who communicates an assessment and an opinion of various forms of creative works such as art, literature, music, cinema, theater, fashion, architecture, and food. Critics may also take as their subject social or gover ...
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Criticality (disambiguation)
Criticality may refer to:
Physics terms
*Critical phenomena, the collective name associated with the physics of critical points
**Critical point (thermodynamics), the end point of a phase equilibrium curve
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Critical Condition (disambiguation)
Medical state is a term used to describe a hospital patient's health status, or condition. The term is most commonly used in information given to the news media, and is rarely used as a clinical description by physicians.
Two aspects of the pat ...
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Criticism
Criticism is the construction of a judgement about the negative qualities of someone or something. Criticism can range from impromptu comments to a written detailed response. , ''"the act of giving your opinion or judgment about the good or bad q ...
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Crisis
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Critique
Critique is a method of disciplined, systematic study of a written or oral discourse. Although critique is commonly understood as fault finding and negative judgment,Rodolphe Gasché (2007''The honor of thinking: critique, theory, philosophy''p ...
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