The phrase "acute cold" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a sudden and intense experience of cold, often in a medical or descriptive context.
Example: "After spending too long outside in the winter storm, I experienced an acute cold that made my fingers numb."
Alternatives: "severe chill" or "intense cold".
It is well known that acute cold exposure induces asthmatic attacks.
Computer models suggest the onset of persistent and acute cold may hold off until between Jan . 25and 30.
Mice with brown adipose tissue-specific genetic ablation of HDAC3 become severely hypothermic and succumb to acute cold exposure.
BAT HDAC3 is required for cold-mediated induction of Ucp1 expression, and HDAC3 expression is not altered by acute cold.
Alemán, G. et al. Increase in FGF21 stimulates browning markers in white adipose tissue in rats fed a low protein high carbohydrate diet during acute cold exposure.
Adipose-tissue resident M2 macrophages were identified as a source of catecholamines involved in the regulation of lipolysis in response to acute cold exposure (Nguyen et al. 2011).
Acute exposure of part of the skin to cold stimuli can evoke urinary urgency, a phenomenon termed acute cold-induced urgency (ACIU).
As Jennifer Ackerman writes in Ah-Choo!: The Uncommon Life of Your Common Cold, "As early as 1933, Harold Diehl, dean of the University of Minnesota Medical School, gave inert lactose tablets as 'cold remedies' to 35 students with acute colds, and they reported being promptly freed of their cold woes.
It is clinically characterised by a transient acute cold-related dysaesthesias, sometimes pain-associated, or with cramps and functional failure, although it is generally reversible (Caussanel et al, 1990, Misset, 1998).
The acute cold-induced NST expressed as a percent of resting EE was shown to increase from 11% before cold acclimation to 18% at the end of the 10 days of cold exposure (i.e., NST amounted to 175 kcal/day before and 290 kcal/day after 10 days of cold acclimation).
Dysesthesias occurred more often in the face than in the extremities, perhaps due to acute, painful cold sensitivity experienced while eating, drinking or handling a cold object.
