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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In physics, an amount of force equal to 1,000 dynes.
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“Begin a twenty-kilodyne burst,” the Doctor ordered.
Flashback Brannon Braga 1996
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Program a fifty-kilodyne burst … five-second duration.
Flashback Brannon Braga 1996
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Cells derived in this manner retain multipotency and generate neurons, astrocytes, and oligodendrocytes severe combined immunodeficient (NOD-scid) mice that received either a 50 or 60 kilodyne (kd) contusion SCI, followed by hCNS-SCns transplantation 9 days post-injury (dpi) [1].
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