In the medical branch, the use of these words is very recurrent since they designate a critical condition or a clinical situation that a patient is going through. Typically, physicians who assist an individual when communicating with colleagues, family members, or the media interested in a patient's condition, generally use this concept when they want to indicate that the vital signs of this are not stable. and, in case, death is a probable and imminent outcome.
The critical condition is one of the five states that the drug considers most serious, meanwhile, there are others of less complication and they are also used to designate and explain the state of health of a person who is receiving medical care, such is the case of: serious, regular, indeterminate and good.
In economics, finances are said to be in critical condition when reserves are insufficient and expenses and debts cannot be met. For example: "The company is in critical condition, its balance sheets closed in the red, as losses far exceed profits."
A government is in critical condition, when it loses its legitimacy and, therefore, the majority of the population no longer believes in the authorities, refuses to comply with the current rules, eliminates fiscal collaboration and carries out continuous strikes and protests.
In sociology this term is registered, when its population suffers hunger, unemployment, illiteracy, the infant mortality rate and crime increase.
In conclusion we can find many definitions, but in the chemical branch the term is regularly used in systems of pure components, as well as in gas mixtures, for example:
The critical state for the gas-liquid transition is the set of physical conditions in which the density and other properties of the liquid and the value become identical. For a pure (single) component, this point is the highest temperature at which liquid and vapor can exist in equilibrium.
