Crossword clues for microgram
Wiktionary
n. A unit of mass equal to 0.000 001 grams. Symbol: μg or mcg
WordNet
n. one millionth (1/1,000,000) gram [syn: mcg]
Wikipedia
In the metric system, a microgram or microgramme (μg; while the recommended symbol in the United States when communicating medical information is mcg) is a unit of mass equal to one billionth of a kilogram, one millionth of a gram, or one thousandth of a milligram. The unit symbol is μg according to the International System of Units. In μg the prefix symbol for micro- is the Greek letter μ (Mu).
Usage examples of "microgram".
EPA said blood lead levels above 10 micrograms per deciliter are risky, and the officials were sure that Aspen residents were in worse shape than that.
Consider one microgram of table salt, a speck just barely large enough for someone with keen eyesight to make out without a microscope.
Any mind-state could be conditioned for better or for worse by a few micrograms of the right substance in the bloodstream.
Her blood pressure rose, so she adjusted slightly her intake of saline and gave herself five micrograms of a mood leveler.
It's thought that the average joe has 10-20 micrograms of lead floating around in every 100 milliliters of blood, with about 3.
To avoid goiter, the thyroid condition associated with lack of iodine, you need about 150 micrograms of iodine per day, which you get from roughly one-third teaspoon of iodized salt.
It's in a diluted form so that each drop out of a medicine dropper is fifty micrograms.
You took the buccal swab and swirled it around in a test tube containing a solution that turns acid in the presence of even a microgram of DNA, then added a drop of phenol red.
For instance, women, who have had their overies removed, have improved their sex life by using 300 microgram testosterone patches (Dr.
A single female silkworm moth need release only a hundredth of a microgram of sex attractant per second to attract every male silkworm in a volume of about a cubic mile.