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Definition of Minims
1. minim [n] - See also: minim
Lexicographical Neighbors of Minims
Literary usage of Minims
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians by George Grove (1908)
"In I this order two minims must be written in one of the parts against each
semibreve in the Canto fermo, except the last, unless the exercise should be in ..."
2. Proceedings of the American Pharmaceutical Association at the Annual Meeting by American Pharmaceutical Association, National Pharmaceutical Convention, American Pharmaceutical Association Meeting (1898)
"4 ounces; extract of jasmin, 8 ounces ; oil of cloves, 5 minims ; oil of bitter
almor.ds, 5 minims; terpineol, 60 minims; rectified spirit, 8 fluid ounces ..."
3. Proceedings of the American Pharmaceutical Association at the Annual Meeting by American Pharmaceutical Association, National Pharmaceutical Convention (1898)
"... extract of rose, 2 fluid ounces; oil of ylang-ylang, 10 minims; extract of
jasmin, 4 fluid ounces ; rectified spirit to produce 20 fluid ounces. ..."
4. A Manual of Pharmacology and Its Applications to Therapeutics and Toxicology by Torald Hermann Sollmann (1922)
"Dose, 0.03 to 0.18 cc, Yl to 3 minims, BP Cinnamomum Zeylanicum, USP; Cinnam.
... Dose, 2 cc, 30 minims, USP; 0.3 to 1.2 cc, 5 to 20 minims, ..."
5. Proceedings of the American Pharmaceutical Association at the Annual Meeting by American Pharmaceutical Association, National Pharmaceutical Convention, American Pharmaceutical Association Meeting (1880)
"Hypodermic dose, 4 to 15 minims. Conia.—Conia, 1 grain; dilute spirit of wine,
... Hypodermic dose, 4 to 9 minims. Extractum Opii.—Aqueous extract of opium, ..."
6. The Lancet (1898)
"The dmg was first administered in capsules, eacb containing ó minims, ... The dose
of 5 minims was at first usually increased by 5 minims every third day, ..."
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