The phrase "acute dose" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used in medical or scientific contexts to refer to a dose of a substance that is administered in a short period of time, often associated with a specific effect or response.
Example: "The study focused on the effects of an acute dose of the medication on patients with chronic pain."
Alternatives: "short-term dose" or "immediate dose".
An acute dose of dietary aluminum did not affect calcium absorption in rats.
Mutant frequencies obtained were 10 times higher from the chronic exposure than produced by a nearly lethal acute dose.
Short term treatment with an acute dose of rapamycin inhibited the mTOR pathway and telomerase activity and induced G1 arrest.
An acute dose of cranberry beverages improved biomarkers of antioxidant status and inhibition of bacterial adhesion in urine.
This finding is particularly interesting because the level of frontal activation during an associative learning task has also been shown to correlate with the DES score, when healthy controls were administered an acute dose of ketamine (Corlett et al, 2006).
In this study we investigated the effect of Tinospora cordifolia on urotoxicity induced by acute dose of CP using Swiss albino mice model.
Subsequently, we expose zebrafish for 1 h to an acute dose of ethanol (0.00, 0.50, or 1.00% vol/vol) and monitor their behaviour throughout this period.
Twelve male adolescents with ADHD were assessed twice in a double-blind, randomized design, under either placebo or an acute dose of methylphenidate.
The spatial pattern of positive BOLD activation following an acute dose of cocaine resembled the distribution of monoamine synaptic terminals (Hokfelt et al, 1974; Thierry et al, 1973) and the pattern of cocaine-induced [14C]2-deoxyglucose labeling in the rat brain (Porrino, 1993).
In any case, the claims must be considered in the light of what one expects from radiation effects: there is no disease called radiation poisoning; a large acute dose (400 rems and more) can kill within a short time by destroying blood cells, bone marrow and the intestinal lining.
