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Definition of Millicuries
1. millicurie [n] - See also: millicurie
Lexicographical Neighbors of Millicuries
Literary usage of Millicuries
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics by The American College of Surgeons, Franklin H. Martin Memorial Foundation (1922)
"June 5, 60 millicuries of radium in the right and left lobes of the prostate,
... March 1, 1918, 3 weeks ago, 50 millicuries of radium for 7 hours and 15 ..."
2. Proceedings of the second Pan American scientific congress: Washington, U. S by Glen Levin Swiggett (1917)
"July 7, one tube, 2.1 millicuries; July 14, two tubes, 7 millicuries; ...
November 3, two tubes, 4.4 millicuries total dose, in the upper and left hand ..."
3. Radium for therapeutic purposes by Charles F. Whittemore (1919)
"If a station is provided with five hundred milligrams of radium, the output of
purified emanation will be about seventy millicuries per day, allowing ninety ..."
4. Radium Therapy by Frank Edward Simpson (1922)
"containing 120 millicuries and allows them to remain twenty-four hours.
Hayward Pinch (London Radium Institute) gives a total exposure of about 16011 ..."
5. Radium; Abstracts of Selected Articles on Radium and Radium Therapy by United States Radium Corporation, American Institute of Medicine (1922)
"A dose of 3.2 millicuries is therefore a safe dose for one area of skin in most
... (due to wool, etc.). Dose causing ulceration 3.2 millicuries. ..."
6. Progressive Medicine by Hobart Amory Hare (1920)
"On April 10, 1916, radium was applied, 36 millicuries with lead filter, for four
hours to the temple: On September 22, 1916, 58 millicuries "filtered ..."
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