Spectral analysis of light discloses the presence of a millionth of a milligramme of sodium in a flame.
Such doses, with minute doses, a milligrammeor more (gr.
The writer found no poison in the stomach, but separated a milligramme of metallic mercury from the liver; the urine and intestines were not sent.
Baxt,[411] experimenting with the frog, found that a milligramme caused deep sleep and slowing of the heart's action.
According to the ordinary composition of opium, 5 centigrammes of morphine represent about a milligramme of thebaine.
But these experiments show that the quantity of morphine has a much more powerful convulsive action than a milligramme of thebaine.
One milligramme may be added to compensate for loss, and the whole multiplied by four gives the percentage of uric acid in the urine.
One milligramme suffices to kill a rabbit within several hours.
According to Vaillard one milligramme of tetanus toxin will kill a horse weighing 600 kilos.
Assuming, for instance, that 1 milligrammeof Lachesis-venom coagulates in two minutes 1 c.
This dose of 1 milligramme generally kills the control rabbits in less than thirty minutes when introduced into the veins, and in from two to three hours when injected beneath the skin.
The same serum should therefore neutralise 1 milligramme of venom in a dose of 1 c.
Cobra-venom was found to be a little less active than the foregoing, but still its action was usually evident enough when it was employed in a dose of 0·5 milligrammeor even 0·1 milligramme.
For example, while 1 milligrammeof Cobra-venom dissolves in from five to ten minutes 1 c.
Half a milligramme of dry extract injected subcutaneously is sufficient to kill a guinea-pig, and 1 milligramme is lethal to the rabbit.
It is possible to make a very precise comparative study of them from this special point of view by taking as a base for each venom, as was done by Noc, the unital dose of 1 milligramme (or one-tenth of a cubic centimetre of a 1 per cent.
One-tenth of this solution corresponds exactly to 1 milligramme of dry venom.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "milligramme" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
