What's the difference between kilometer and millimeter?

Kilometer


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Kilometre

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Forty-one (85 percent) affected persons lived in five communities located within a 70-kilometer area along the coast.
  • (2) In the picture above, taken over Libya, a storm stretches for hundreds of kilometers across the sand seas of the Sahara.
  • (3) An investigation of aerosols emitted by trickling-filter sewage treatment plants revealed that coliforms were indeed emitted and have been sampled to a distance of 0.8 mile (1.2 kilometers) downwind.
  • (4) Venda, northern Transvaal, South Africa, a self governing region of 7460 square kilometers varying from rural villages to small towns.
  • (5) The use of the rates "death per registered vehicle" or "death per vehicle-kilometer" does not provide a consistent measure across time when there is a nonlinear relationship between number of deaths and number of vehicles.
  • (6) Power will have to flow from offshore wind farms in the north of the country over many hundred kilometers to the industrial centers in the west and the south.
  • (7) We also analyzed the traffic accident risk per million kilometers driven.
  • (8) Boos and whistles from protesters forced Danish Prime Minister Thorning-Schmidt to halt her May Day speech to thousands at the gathering in Aarhus, some 200 kilometers (125 miles) northwest of Copenhagen.
  • (9) Likewise, there appears to be at present little satisfactory explanation for the several clusters of exceedingly high mortality areas scattered in northern and central Italy, since some of these areas are several hundred kilometers apart, and there is no obvious common denominator in diet or other environmental factors that may explain their higher gastric cancer mortality rates.
  • (10) All 91,823 children born in 1980 in Bohemia (population 6.314 million; area 52,478 square kilometers) were examined at least four times during infancy and at the age of three and four years.
  • (11) This study does not take into account the kilometers driven.
  • (12) Fixed health facilities should not be limited to a radius of 5 kilometers, they should establish seasonal circuits as the population moves, and 1 or more areas should be served by an intermediate fed health post.
  • (13) The death rates per hundred million vehicle kilometers of travel, per 100,000 registered motor vehicles, and per 100,000 resident population in 1987 were about 1.87, 19.7, and 26.5, respectively.
  • (14) To examine the effect of intensive physical exercise on interleukin 2 (IL-2), tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF alpha) and lymphocyte subsets, eleven elite and well-conditioned runners were tested in relation to a five-kilometer race.
  • (15) This paper discusses the surgical and medical problems affecting off-shore oil drilling workers in the south-eastern Atlantic coastline of the Nigerian territorial waters; about 50-60 kilometers from land.
  • (16) The findings of this study are as follows: During the decade studied, Western Europe as a whole experienced a fatality rate reduction per 10(9) vehicle-kilometers traveled of 45.8% while the U.S. experienced a 29.1% reduction during this same period.
  • (17) At the end of this year’s summer melt season, the areal extent covered by sea ice was more than a million square kilometers below the 30-year average.
  • (18) This low coverage was observed in spite the fact that health services were available within 2 kilometer radius.
  • (19) In that test, the rate-pressure product (HR X BPs) also increased and a greater ST segment depression and aggravation of arrhythmia were noted as compared to the findings obtained during the 5 kilometer march and also in the classic ergometric test.
  • (20) The samples were taken from the middle of the White Nile, from handpumps along the river-bank, from the bank of the river and from drinking water bowls in the village of Melut and other surrounding villages within about 100 kilometers.

Millimeter


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Millimetre

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Compliance during dehydration was 7.6 and 12.5% change in IFV per millimeter Hg fall in IFP (micropipettes) in skin and muscle, respectively, whereas compliance in subcutis based on perforated capsule pressure was 2.0% change in IFV per millimeter Hg.
  • (2) At 1 month the rate of production of 6-keto-PGF1 alpha per square millimeter of surface area of experimental segments was normal.
  • (3) Fructose bisphosphatase, a gluconeogenic enzyme, is high along the major portion of the proximal tubule but plummets along the final millimeter of S3.
  • (4) The dimensions of the acetabular wall were thinner in the hips that had the thirty-two-millimeter component than in those that had the twenty-two-millimeter component (p less than 0.05).
  • (5) Although total survival rates were not improved in patients with the thickest lesions (those in excess of 3.0 millimeters) disease-free rates in these patients were considerably higher after ELND.
  • (6) Postoperative APR improved to 86.3 millimeters of mercury and ABI to 0.63 (p less than 0.05).
  • (7) In the presence of peripheral vasodilatation, adequate blood flow can be expected after such bypass grafts at blood pressures as low as 80 millimeters of mercury and hypotension per se does not produce vascular steal.
  • (8) Associated with this increase in epidermal wet weight is a two times increase in the number of epidermal cells per millimeter of interfollicular epidermis.
  • (9) There was a continuous relation between the incidence of stroke and the severity of mitral annular calcification; each millimeter of thickening as shown on the echocardiogram represented a relative risk of stroke of 1.24 (95 percent confidence interval, 1.12 to 1.37; P less than 0.001).
  • (10) Varus loosening of two millimeters or more was associated with lower evaluation scores.
  • (11) The greatest reduction in contact area occurred during the initial one millimeter of lateral displacement, the average reduction being 42 per cent.
  • (12) Administration of dexamethasone to the mother significantly increased total leukocyte and neutrophil counts (leukocytes per cubic millimeter blood) and decreased lymphocyte and eosinophil counts, but it did not change monocyte counts.
  • (13) In normal subjects, the left ventricular (LV) epicardial apex swung up to the base only a few millimeters, and the mitral annulus ring moved about 14 mm as mean value toward the apex during systole.
  • (14) The cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) cell count ranged from 150 to 1500 leukocytes per cubic millimeter, with a mean eosinophil percentage of 38.
  • (15) By infusing 350 to 500 milliliters of dextran 60 on day one or two postoperatively, the cardiac output was elevated about one-third, the central venous pressure increased from 0.9 to 4.9 millimeters of mercury and the portal venous pressure increased from 7.8 to 9.7 millimeters of mercury.
  • (16) In the first group of six dogs, reinfusion was carried out without delay; in a second group of six dogs, hypovolemia was continued for two hours, during which time the arterial pressure was permitted to rise in response to intact cardiovascular reflexes; in a third group of eight dogs, the mean arterial pressure was artificially maintained at 40 millimeters of mercury for two hours, initially by further bleeding.
  • (17) The diameters of the right ventricular infundibulum, pulmonary trunk, and the entirety of the right and left pulmonary arteries were measured (in millimeters), corrected for magnification, and expressed in standard deviation units (Z-values).
  • (18) By appropriate multivariate statistical analyses, about 95 per cent of the variance in results of surgery (expressed as change in deviation from preoperative to the postoperative time in prism diopters per millimeter of surgical correction) could be accounted for.
  • (19) Total and distal OR measurements (measured in millimeters of mercury per milliliter per minute) were divided into four groups each for all infrainguinal bypasses combined and for FP and FD bypasses separately.
  • (20) Large randomly selected fields were analyzed to determine the number of capillaries per square millimeter of fiber area (capillary density), per 1,000-microns 2 area of each muscle fiber (capillary index), and in 100 x 100-microns grid squares.

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