What is "milligram"

Usage examples of "milligram".

Three more runs at the milligram level showed no anomalies, and they got the go-ahead to do the Ten-Ten experiment--only two days before voting began in the senate election.

Loading the contact syringes would take more time than he had, so he drew fifty milligrams into a conventional syringe and shot the drug into the antecubital vein at the crook of her elbow.

In the next chapter I ask you simply to come with me through a day in the life of the lab as I go through the routine tasks of experimentation, training chicks, dissecting their brains, measuring their biochemical constituents in quantities of thousandths of a milligram, and trying to extract meaning from the tables of figures that these measurements produce.

The blood test, analyzed at speed because of the bang on my head, had revealed a level of 290 milligrams of alcohol per centiliter of blood, which, I had been assured, meant that I had drunk the equivalent of at least half a bottle of spirits during the preceding few hours.

It can be obtained very pure, but always contains more or less silver, 1 or 2 milligrams in 100 grams.

Trevor poured five shots of Malibu into a glass and mixed in lemon-lime soda from the refrigerator, then added twelve milligrams of gamma hydroxybutyrate from a vial hidden in his tuxedo pocket.

But with the remainder of my contract to run I continued to feed variables into the ICC, allowing the few people who knew what I was supposed to be doing to think that the output of my programs was still megadeaths per milligram.

Methedrine: Methedrine is sold in 5-milligram white tablets with a center groove, or in ampules for injections containing 20 milligrams.

Wednesday morning, after William gets out of bed and asks where the Valium is and after I stumble out of bed to retrieve it from my purse and after he reminds me that the family has reservations at Spago at eight and after I hear the wheels on the Mercedes screech out of the driveway and after Susan tells me that she is going to Westwood with Alana and Blair after school and will meet us at Spago and after I fall back asleep and dream of rats drowning, crawling desperately over each other in a steaming, bubbling jacuzzi, and dozens of poolboys, nude, standing over the jacuzzi, laughing, pointing at the drowning rats, their heads nodding in unison to the beat of the music coming from portable stereos they hold in golden arms, I wake up and walk downstairs and take a Tab out of the refrigerator and find twenty milligrams of Valium in a pillbox in another purse in the alcove by the refrigerator and take ten milligrams.

He hated to think how much it must have cost to haul those milligrams of entangled quantum dots across the endless light years between here and Turku by slower-than-light star-wisp.

The Yanomami consume about 87 milligrams of salt a day, which occurs naturally in their food and equals two shakes from a standard saltshaker.

The 400 milligrams of Deca-Durabolin and testosterone cypionate you just spiked backstage is still a round little bolus in the skin on your ass.

With a scalpel, Reza dissects each in turn, places the tiny samples weighing no more than 20 milligrams - twenty thousandths of a gram - into one of the labelled tubes, and passes it back to me.

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

The doctor kept him on the Tofranil and prescribed, in addition, five milligrams of Ritalin twice a day.