Definition of microgram in English:
microgram
noun ˈmʌɪkrə(ʊ)ɡramˈmaɪkrəˌɡræm
One millionth of a gram.
Example sentencesExamples
- To confuse matters even more, some products list the amounts of vitamins and minerals by milligrams or micrograms, while others use international units (a microgram equals 3.33 international units).
- The results were expressed in terms of micrograms per gram of creatinine.
- Under the previously allowed four pound per acre rate of chlorpyrifos, the ADI was right at the one microgram per kilogram a day limit.
- What this means is that the maximum safe dose for ingested mercury is 0.1 microgram per kilogram of weight of the person ingesting the mercury per day.
- In Nairobi's Central Business District the lead levels were 5,000 micrograms per kilogram.
- We analyzed each sample in triplicate, and results were defined in micrograms per gram of dry lung tissue.
- One child's level jumped from two micrograms per deciliter to 35 after eating the grasshoppers.
- The groups received different doses of the vaccine, ranging from 4 micrograms to 500 micrograms per dose.
- Heroin addicts found dead from overdose, he will testify, are often found with only one or two hundred micrograms per liter in their blood.
- The levels in three samples exceeded the safety limit for the ASP toxin of 20 micrograms per gram.
- The current federal blood level that defines lead poisoning is 10 micrograms of lead per deciliter.
- The results are expressed in micrograms per milligram protein.
- The rats received either 60 or 300 micrograms per kilogram of body weight.
- The concentrations of manganese in two samples of surface soil taken from area A were 748 and 629 micrograms per gram, dry weight.
- Data are expressed as micrograms of hydroxyproline per milligram dry weight.
- In the European parliament, however, 10 of the swabs were smeared with between 20 micrograms and 30 micrograms.
- Tests on pure Paterson's Curse honey have shown that it contains up to 2 micrograms of toxin per gram of honey.
- The device can detect even tiny concentrations of less than one microgram (one millionth of a gram) per liter.
- One strain survived less than a day when exposed to a concentration of at least 2 micrograms per milliliter.
- The trouble was that a mere microgram (millionth of a gram) can kill, if lodged in the lungs.
Definition of microgram in US English:
microgram
(also mcg)
nounˈmaɪkrəˌɡræmˈmīkrəˌɡram
One millionth of a gram.
Example sentencesExamples
- In the European parliament, however, 10 of the swabs were smeared with between 20 micrograms and 30 micrograms.
- The results are expressed in micrograms per milligram protein.
- One strain survived less than a day when exposed to a concentration of at least 2 micrograms per milliliter.
- Under the previously allowed four pound per acre rate of chlorpyrifos, the ADI was right at the one microgram per kilogram a day limit.
- The groups received different doses of the vaccine, ranging from 4 micrograms to 500 micrograms per dose.
- To confuse matters even more, some products list the amounts of vitamins and minerals by milligrams or micrograms, while others use international units (a microgram equals 3.33 international units).
- What this means is that the maximum safe dose for ingested mercury is 0.1 microgram per kilogram of weight of the person ingesting the mercury per day.
- Heroin addicts found dead from overdose, he will testify, are often found with only one or two hundred micrograms per liter in their blood.
- The concentrations of manganese in two samples of surface soil taken from area A were 748 and 629 micrograms per gram, dry weight.
- The trouble was that a mere microgram (millionth of a gram) can kill, if lodged in the lungs.
- We analyzed each sample in triplicate, and results were defined in micrograms per gram of dry lung tissue.
- The rats received either 60 or 300 micrograms per kilogram of body weight.
- In Nairobi's Central Business District the lead levels were 5,000 micrograms per kilogram.
- Data are expressed as micrograms of hydroxyproline per milligram dry weight.
- The current federal blood level that defines lead poisoning is 10 micrograms of lead per deciliter.
- Tests on pure Paterson's Curse honey have shown that it contains up to 2 micrograms of toxin per gram of honey.
- The levels in three samples exceeded the safety limit for the ASP toxin of 20 micrograms per gram.
- One child's level jumped from two micrograms per deciliter to 35 after eating the grasshoppers.
- The device can detect even tiny concentrations of less than one microgram (one millionth of a gram) per liter.
- The results were expressed in terms of micrograms per gram of creatinine.