acute dose

noun

1. a total dose of radiation administered over such a short period that biological recovery is impossible

Example Sentences

Pundits have questioned whether he is suffering from an acute dose of white privilege, especially after he was forced to apologize for making jokes on the campaign trail about his wife Amy bringing up their three kids, “sometimes with my help”.

From The Guardian

This jaw-dropping myopia displays the book’s most acute dose of white privilege ideology, which essentially comes down to vision: blindness to the invisible knapsack of advantages one wears every day and, more than that, an all-around inability to properly see one’s privileged place in the world.

From Washington Post

The authors tried the same thing with an acute dose of the antidepressant citalopram, which selectively increases serotonin.

From Scientific American

An acute dose is a relatively large amount of radiation received in a very short time period.

From Forbes

A chronic dose is a relatively small amount of radiation received over a long period of time, which is generally tolerated by human bodies more effectively than an acute dose.

From Forbes