16229 IUPAC Gold Book - acute effect 10.1351/goldbook.16229 16229 current antonym: chronic effect 1 Effect of finite duration occurring rapidly (usually in the first \(\pu{24 h}\) or up to \(\pu{14 d}\)) following a single dose or short exposure to a substance or radiation. PAC, 2007, 79, 1583. 'Explanatory dictionary of key terms in toxicology (IUPAC Recommendations 2007)' on page 1593 (https://doi.org/10.1351/pac200779091583) https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/16229/html https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/16229/json https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/16229/plain Citation: 'acute effect' in IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 5th ed. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry; 2025. Online version 5.0.0, 2025. 10.1351/goldbook.16229 The IUPAC Gold Book is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike CC BY-SA 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) for individual terms. If you are interested in licensing the Gold Book for commercial use, please contact the IUPAC Executive Director at executivedirector@iupac.org . The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) is continuously reviewing and, where needed, updating terms in the Compendium of Chemical Terminology (the IUPAC Gold Book). Users of these terms are encouraged to include the version of a term with its use and to check regularly for updates to term definitions that you are using. 2026-04-20T21:24:18+00:00