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Milliard


Definition:

  • (n.) A thousand millions; -- called also billion. See Billion.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) 4,5 milliards de personnes exposées à des canicules chaque année.
  • (2) In Italy some recent data documented that the social costs in relation to osteoporosis fractures can be evaluated in 1983 between 80 and 153 milliard liras.
  • (3) Germ-free monoflora (contaminated with nonpathogenic spore-bearing bacillus) and common albino rats (OFA) were infected with V. cholera El Tor, of Ogava and Inaba serological types (6 milliard microbial cells per 1.5 ml of physiological solution per rat).
  • (4) In infection with various doses of the causative agent--from 1 milliard to 1 microbial cell-positive results were noted in 92.3% of cases (according to the data of fluorescent microscopy) and in 77.3% of cases (according to the data of light microscopy), this pointing to a greater sensitivity of the method of fluorescent in comparison with the light microscopy.
  • (5) The posology of 40 milliard and the bi-weekly sequence of the treatments presented the highest immunoreactions.
  • (6) Under conditions of conventional animals contamination with E. coli 055 (in doses of 500 million and 10 milliard microbial bodies for subcutaneous and oral inoculation, respectively) only an early transitory bacteremia developed at the early postinfection periods.
  • (7) The appearance and the progression of the specific immunoreactions at biliary levels (agglutinant titre, immunoenzimatic titration of IgAGM, IgA, IgG) in rabbits treated per os from 1 to 10 times, daily or bi-weekly, with 20 and 40 milliard of inactivated bacterial antigens (E. coli, Proteus vulgaris, Staph.
  • (8) 1,5 milliard de personnes exposées à une pénurie d’eau accrue.
  • (9) The nutrition of the additional milliard in this century could be kept at the approximately equal per capita level by cultivation of land reserves with traditional primitive methods without an increase of yield.
  • (10) 1,5 milliard de personnes exposées à des canicules chaque année.
  • (11) Live dysentery Sonne vaccine from a spontaneous mutant proved to be practically areactogenic and specifically harmless in oral immunization of children aged from 7 to 13 years, in doses of from 3 to 25 milliard live microbial cells and in single and triple immunization schemes.
  • (12) The available reserves of food production in all--taking the land reserves and the still more important progress in agricultural methods together--are so great that fear of general hunger through the exhaustion of resources, even with a world population of ten milliards, must be regarded as totally unfounded and misleading.
  • (13) The explosive increase of population in almost all the underdeveloped countries--about 1900 it was round a milliard, now it is more than two milliard and at the turn of the century more than four milliard is to be expected--has given rise to serious concern that the Third World is approaching a nutritional catastrophe such as ROBERT MALTHUS has prophesied nearly two hundred years ago for the newly developing industrial countries.
  • (14) Indeed the statistical power of a hypothetical follow-up study at a suitable confidence level would require a sample size higher than a milliard of persons for the detection of an increase of a generic cancer mortality and higher then seven hundred of millions for the detection of an increase of the specific thyroid cancer mortality.
  • (15) 1,75 milliard de personnes affectées par une pénurie d’eau accrue chaque année.
  • (16) On milliard cells of killed staphylococcal culture are injected to the animals into the paws of the limbs; two and a half weeks later an intradermal test with an allergen in a dose of 10 microgram by protein was made.
  • (17) Avec un réchauffement au-delà de 5°C, 12 milliards de personnes seraient exposées aux canicules chaque année, la surface des terres arables diminuerait de 7,6 millions de km2, 120 millions de personnes par an seraient affectées par les inondations et 2 milliards de personnes seraient exposés à une pénurie d’eau accrue.

Milliary


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to a mile, or to distance by miles; denoting a mile or miles.
  • (a.) A milestone.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Necrotizing angiitis has been found associated with mixed cryoglobulinemia; administration of drugs, milliary tuberculosis, bacterial meningitis, rickettsiosis, staphylococcal sepsis, pharyngotonsillitis, and rheumatoid arthritis.
  • (2) Research showed that BCG vaccination protects against 2 severe forms of TB, meningeal and milliary, both of which were not present in this population.

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