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Milliliter

Milliliter \Mil"li*li`ter\, Millilitre \Mil"li*li`tre\, n. [F. millilitre; milli- milli- + litre. See Liter.] A measure of capacity in the metric system, containing the thousandth part of a liter. It is a cubic centimeter, and is equal to .061 of an English cubic inch, or to .0338 of an American fluid ounce.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
milliliter

also millilitre, 1802, from French millilitre; see milli- + liter.

Wiktionary
milliliter

n. (alternative spelling of millilitre from=US English)

WordNet
milliliter

n. a metric unit of volume equal to one thousandth of a liter [syn: millilitre, mil, ml, cubic centimeter, cubic centimetre, cc]

Usage examples of "milliliter".

Twenty-five-millimeter cartridge, filled with a half a milliliter of Novichok, a V-class anticholinesterase agent that will paralyze you in about eight seconds.

Her test showed a blood level of twenty-three nanograms per 394 milliliter at about four hours after she drank it.

In normal daily life, your levels of epinephrine hover between 200 to 800 nanograms per milliliter.

Since it came as a powder, 500 milligrams of the drug had been mixed with 20 milliliters of sterile water.

Fecal coliform is at levels of 100,000 to 5 million colonies per milliliter at the border checkpoint, far above the treaty limit of 240 colonies.

It's thought that the average joe has 10-20 micrograms of lead floating around in every 100 milliliters of blood, with about 3.

More to it than that: inside the equipment-laden cart, the chrome assemblage he'd pushed up to the elevator doors, was a ten milliliter jar filled with red sputum that he'd just suctioned out of the doped-up patient's bronchial tubes.

If we had flown straight and let the camera move in circles, we could have calculated exact distances and speeds and fuel to a ten-digit milliliter.

We take the chance that a milliliter or so of carbon is a nonsignificant article, she said, holding up her charcoal pencil.

When the number of merozoites exceeds about 50 per cubic milliliter of blood (a typical drop), the victim suffers a malaria attack every forty-eight hours.

Briggs asked how much 11 nanograms was, and Middleberg said that one joint—a typical cigarette—would leave about 25 to 50 nanograms per milliliter of blood.

But if someone is taking enough to get twenty-nine hundred nanograms per milliliter, they’re getting to that level, ahh, it is within that realm at which we have found that people die.

In a heavily infected person, the number of plasmodia present can be as high as 2 million per milliliter.

Normally, with a term baby, we would probably take twenty milliliters at once, but in this instance I shall take only ten, so as to avoid too much fluctuation of the venous pressure.