| miller's asthma | Asthma caused by flour or grain allergens. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| Miller's chemicoparasitic theory | That dental caries is caused by microorganisms of the mouth fermenting dietary carbohydrates and producing acids that demineralise the teeth. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Miller, Thomas Grier | <person> U.S. Physician, *1886. See: Miller-Abbott tube. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Miller, Willoughby | <person> U.S. Dentist, 1853-1907. See: Miller's chemicoparasitic theory. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Miller-Abbott tube | A tube with two lumens, one ending in a small collapsible balloon and the other in a metallic tip with numerous perforations; used for intestinal decompression. Synonym: Abbott's tube. (05 Mar 2000) |
| millerite | <chemical> A sulphide of nickel, commonly occurring in delicate capillary crystals, also in incrustations of a bronze yellow; sometimes called hair pyrites. Origin: From W. H. Miller, of Cambridge, Eng. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| millet | <botany> The name of several cereal and forage grasses which bear an abundance of small roundish grains. The common millets of Germany and Southern Europe are Panicum miliaceum, and Setaria Italica. Arabian millet is Sorghum Halepense. Egyptian or East Indian, millet is Penicillaria spicata. Indian millet is Sorghum vulgare. (See Indian) Italian millet is Setaria Italica, a coarse, rank-growing annual grass, valuable for fodder when cut young, and bearing nutritive seeds; called also Hungarian grass. Texas millet is Panicum Texanum. Wild millet, or Millet grass, is Milium effusum, a tail grass growing in woods. Origin: F, dim. Of mil, L. Milium; akin to Gr, AS. Mil. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| millet seed | The seed of a grass, formerly used as a rough designation of size of about 2 mm in diameter. (05 Mar 2000) |
| milli- | <prefix> A prefix denoting a thousandth part of; as, millimetre, milligram, milliampere. Origin: From L. Mille a thousand (29 Oct 1998) |
| milliampere | <physics> The thousandth part of one ampere. Origin: Milli- + ampere. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| millibar | One-thousandth of a bar; 100 newtons/sq m; 0.75006 mm Hg; standard atmospheric pressure is 1013 millibars. (05 Mar 2000) |
| millicurie | A unit of radioactivity equivalent to 3.7 × 107 disintegrations per second. (05 Mar 2000) |
| milliequivalent | One-thousandth equivalent; 10-3 mole divided by valence. (05 Mar 2000) |
| milligram | <unit> One thousandth of a gram. Abbreviation: mg (12 Jan 1998) |
| milligram hour | An obsolete term for a unit of exposure in radium therapy, i.e., the application of 1 milligram of radium during 1 hour. Synonym: milligramage. (05 Mar 2000) |