cubic centimeter
Volume, not length: reporting a lesion in cubic centimeters captures how much of it there is, which three measurements alone do not.
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A number only means something when the next one is taken the same way, on the same machine, in the same plane.
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Medical findings from skin lesions to blood vessel measurements are commonly sized in millimeters, a metric unit equal to one thousandth of a meter.
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The scale on which molecules, viruses and wavelengths of light are measured, far below anything an ordinary microscope can resolve.
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Handwriting is the whole problem: a hurried cc reads as u, the old abbreviation for units, and the quantity changes entirely.
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Concentration is what turns a volume into a dose, which is why milliliters and milligrams can never be swapped for each other.
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Pressure is never a fixed number, moving through the day with activity, sleep, posture and stress, which is why single readings mislead.
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A population statistic borrowed for individual use, which is the root of most complaints about it, including where the category lines fall.
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The bronchi are the two large air passages branching from the trachea, one into each lung, that form the lungs' main airway entrance.
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A bronchus is one of the two large airways connecting the trachea to a lung, continuing the path air follows into the smaller airways.
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Most of these stones sit silently in the gallbladder for life; the trouble begins only when one moves and blocks a duct.
Read definitionchromosome
Packaging is the point, since the DNA in one cell would stretch about two meters and chromosomes fold it to fit inside a nucleus.
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Two meters of it are packed into a cell too small to see, arranged so any short stretch can still be found and read.
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The flat purple patch left when blood escapes under the skin, larger than a pinpoint spot and free of any lump.
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The kidney doubles as an oxygen meter, releasing this hormone whenever the blood passing through it carries less oxygen than it should.
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A pulse oximeter reports how full the hemoglobin is, not how much oxygen the blood holds, and the two can part company.
Read definitionin-transit metastasis
A type of metastasis in which skin cancer spreads through a lymph vessel and begins to grow more than 2 centimeters away from the primary tumor but before it reaches the nearest lymph node.
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It is the eye of keyhole surgery: instruments enter through separate ports, and the whole team operates from one magnified screen image.
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A measure of volume for a liquid, using the metric system.
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A test that measures the strength of the muscles used in breathing.
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