An acute wound heals within

• A. Heals in months
• B. Heals within days to weeks
• C. Heals in years
• D. Heals within hours

Answer: (B)

An acute wound follows a normal, timely healing process driven by the sequential stages of wound healing: hemostasis and inflammation, followed by tissue proliferation and remodeling. In an uncomplicated acute wound, these stages progress to re-epithelialization and tissue restoration over a period of days to a couple of weeks. Healing within hours would be unusually rapid for actual tissue repair, and months or years would indicate a chronic wound with impaired healing. The key idea is that acute wounds have a predictable, relatively quick recovery timeline, whereas chronic wounds persist and require management of underlying factors to resume healing.