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  • noun Plural form of millilitre.

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Examples

  • Based on this, he calculates that a 4-square-centimetre hole increases cerebral blood flow by between 8 and 10 per cent, which is equivalent to 0.8 millilitres more blood per heartbeat (Human Physiology, vol 34, p 299).

    Boing Boing 2009

  • The results, published on Wednesday in the journal Biology Letters, showed that the biggest brains, averaging 1,484 millilitres, were from Scandinavia, while the smallest brains, around 1,200 millilitres, came from Micronesia.

    People at darker, higher latitudes evolved bigger eyes and brains 2011

  • I recall from my early days as a police officer that a charge was withdrawn because the breath technician said “the suspect had 80 millilitres of alcohol per 100 millilitres of blood.”

    Jane/Finch Fatalities, By Car Not Gun… : Law is Cool 2009

  • I mean, in all of the Tours I did exactly the same amount of blood (transfusing) except the first one (2002); the first one I did one transfusion which is 500 millilitres and the next four I did 1000 militaries each, three separate times in 2006, because it was easier to maintain the continuous blood parameters that were being checked.

    Complete transcript: Paul Kimmage’s interview of Floyd Landis 2011

  • Average eye socket size was 26.83 millilitres in Scandinavia and 21.83 millilitres in Micronesia.

    People at darker, higher latitudes evolved bigger eyes and brains 2011

  • What he should have said was “the suspect had 80 milligrams of alcohol per 100 millilitres of blood.”

    Jane/Finch Fatalities, By Car Not Gun… : Law is Cool 2009

  • Can I have one 568 millilitres of Stella really doesn't cut it does it?

    In praise of … the pint | Editorial 2011

  • HBM – my friend, who also had a vaginal birth with large amounts of damage and so much blood loss she was millilitres away from a transfusion, is also thinking that she might look into scheduling a C for the second.

    Mary Shelley Had NO IDEA | Her Bad Mother 2008

  • Warren county court heard Goldblatt had 110 microgrammes of alcohol in 100 millilitres of blood when he was tested at around 1.50am on June 25.

    Drunk driver guilty of killing two Britons in US 2010

  • This Labour government's war on the motorist continues apace, now they are reported to be "minded" to cut the blood alcohol limit from 80 milligrams of alcohol per 100 millilitres of blood to 50 milligrams per 100 millilitres of blood.

    The war on drivers continues Not a sheep 2008

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