acute toxicity

acute toxicity (countable and uncountable, plural acute toxicities)

1. The ability of a substance to cause harmful effects soon after a single exposure or dose.
   • 2007, C.J. van Leeuwen and T. Vermeire, chapter 6, in Risk Assessment of Chemicals: An Introduction, →ISBN, page 240:

     In the assessment of substances for toxic characteristics acute toxicity is usually a first step in providing information on relative toxicity.

• chronic toxicity