(n.) A measure of length; the thousandth part of one millimeter; the millionth part of a meter.
Example Sentences:
(1) Oxyhaemoglobin (4 microns at 0.35 ml.min-1) infused into the tracheal circulation almost abolished the responses to bradykinin and methacholine.
(2) Their contour lengths varied from 0.28 to 51 micron, but unlike in the case of maize, a large difference was not observed in the distribution of molecular classes greater than 1.0 micron between N and S cytoplasms of sugar beet.
(3) Blood flow was measured in leg and torso skin of conscious or anesthetized sheep by using 15-micron radioactive microspheres (Qm) and the 133Xe washout method (QXe).
(4) Within the capillary-perfused mucosa and muscularis (between 50 and 2000 microns from the urothelial surface), concentrations decreased by 50% for each 500-microns distance.
(5) The enzyme was quantitated by incubation of 16-micron-thick brain sections with 0.07-2 nM of the converting enzyme inhibitor 125I-351A and comparison to 125I-standards.
(6) The flow properties of white cells were tested after myocardial infarction, by measuring the filtration rates of cell suspensions through 8 microns pore filters.
(7) Axons emerge from proximal dendrites within 50 microns of the soma, and more rarely from the soma, in a tapering initial segment, commonly interrupted by one or two large swellings.
(8) We have investigated some of the factors which affect the retention times of these substances in reversed-phase HPLC on columns of 5-micron octadecylsilyl silica.
(9) The sticking probability decreased as the cell receptor concentration was lowered from approximately 10(4) to 10(2) receptors per 4-microns diam liposome and as the shear rate increased from 5 to 22 s-1.
(10) Thin layers of carbon (20 microns) and vacuoles (30 microns) suggested a large temperature gradient along the tissue ablation front.
(11) Of 533 myelinated sensory fibers, the size range was 2 micron.
(12) These extracts were used to purify transcriptionally active 2-microns minichromosomes in a sucrose gradient.
(13) The overall effect achieved with LTS was less than that with LTP, but it is possible to reduce IOP by selecting more reasonable parameters, e.g., a laser setting of 200mW, a 50 microns spot size and a 0.5 to 1-sec duration.
(14) Using sterile conditions, antibodies to G were incubated with a suspension of transformed cells at 4 degrees C, unbound antibodies were then removed, and the cells were incubated with the immunoabsorbent (3 micron magnetic beads; J. Ugelstad et al.
(15) We find that the labelled cell has a myelinated axon, but that the axon loses its myelin within 50 microns of the soma and has not yet been traced further.
(16) As early as E-28 many growth cones have lamellipodia that extend outward from the core region as far as 10 microns.
(17) Generally, more distant neurones (500-1300 microns) were excited for variable periods of time (3-15 min), while neurones in the vicinity of the injection site (0-500 microns) showed, after a brief period of excitation time, a long-lasting (up to 30 min) decrease in excitability or silencing of discharge, probably due to a depolarizing block and disturbances in the ionic composition of the extracellular space.
(18) In four of them an endothrix type of parasitism with arthrospores 4 to 8 microns in diameter was observed.
(19) The most suitable condition for mucosalplasty revealed the size of the diamond particle to be 200 microns, and rotational speed to be between 12,000-20,000 rpm.
(20) Paraffin sections (8 microns) containing the medial habenular nucleus were stained with cresyl violet and both left and right medial habenular nuclei were measured by planimetry.
Millionth
Definition:
(a.) Being the last one of a million of units or objects counted in regular order from the first of a series or succession; being one of a million.
(n.) The quotient of a unit divided by one million; one of a million equal parts.
Example Sentences:
(1) Progesterone induced a considerable increase in sperm hyperactivation at 10 millionths M and 1 millionth M after 10 minutes (9.27% and 9.39% vs. 5.62% for untreated spermatozoa; p .05).
(2) Jobs told the audience that the 100 millionth of those devices would be sold this month.
(3) Although Henan last year became the first province in China to register its 100 millionth resident – giving it a population bigger than any country in Europe – it also claims some of the greatest successes in taming demographic growth through its family planning policies.
(4) The Salvation Army announced in autumn 2015 that it had just handed out its millionth food parcel, to a family living in Walthamstow.
(5) Last month a museum dedicated to Doraemon welcomed its 1.5-millionth visitor since opening three years ago.
(6) Nevertheless, it racked up its 2 millionth cardholder in early 1973.
(7) "This 1 millionth child refugee is not just another number," said Anthony Lake, executive director of Unicef, the UN agency for children.
(8) But could they have predicted this unprecedented spike less than halfway through the Earth's life - these human-induced alterations occupying, overall, less than a millionth of the elapsed lifetime and seemingly occurring with runaway speed?
(9) It recently signed up its three millionth HD customer and is "well on target" to sign up 10 million subscribers overall.
(10) The latest flashpoint The spur for Moore and Sherman’s articles this week was a milestone: the 100 millionth takedown notice sent to Google by music rightsholders.
(11) But the success of her album-of-the-year contender, 21, which is expected to sell its 20-millionth copy in the next month, also confirms that the independent sector has broken the once-unassailable grip of major labels on the UK charts.
(12) The NMEC says that it has welcomed its four-and-a-half millionth visitor this week.
(13) Founded in 1984, Nissan's Sunderland factory employs around 4,000 people and built its five-millionth vehicle in June 2008.
(14) Two years after the start of the conflict the arrival of the millionth refugee across the Syrian border is a stark illustration of a crisis that is bringing fear, pain and suffering on a massive scale.
(15) In the future, when it has two cameras for fully featured video conferencing, GPS and who knows what else built in (1080 HD TV reception and recording and nano projection, for example) and when the iBook store has recorded its 100-millionth download and the thousands of accessories and peripherals that have invented uses for iPad that we simply can't now imagine – when that has happened it will all have seemed so natural and inevitable that today's nay-sayers and sceptics will have forgotten that they ever doubted its potential.
(16) As for sales of the game itself, Persson thought it likely the 50 millionth copy had already gone, despite the lack of any formal announcement by Mojang.
(17) After all, as I have told myself for the millionth time, transparency is a right – not a favour.
(18) The scale and speed of the exodus of those fleeing the violence in Syria has been underlined by UN figures showing that the number of refugees has topped 1.5 million, just 10 weeks after the millionth refugee fled to safety.
(19) Bushra, identified as the millionth registered Syrian refugee.
(20) Within the last 50 years - little more than one hundredth of a millionth of the Earth's age - the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere began to rise anomalously fast.