While the location and pattern of abdominal pain can provide important clues, its time course is particularly useful when determining its cause. Acute abdominal pain develops, and often resolves, over a few hours to a few days. Chronic abdominal pain may be intermittent, or episodic, meaning it may come and go. This type of pain may be present for weeks to months, or even years. Some conditions cause progressive pain, which steadily gets worse over time. Acute.
Keaton [keaton] as a boys' name is pronounced KEE-ton. It is of English origin, and the meaning of Keaton is place of hawks. Actors Michael Keaton, Buster Keaton. Associated with: hawks (eagle).
Of the two big Woody Allen movies that launched Keaton's career â Annie Hall in 1977, for which she won an Academy Award, and Manhattan two years later â her role in the former was the closest to her own personality. In Manhattan, she is cast as a pretentious, irksome snob of a journalist.