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gram

noun as in grandmother

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Furthermore, a person with norovirus has about 70 billion viral particles per gram of stool.

The European formula for Fireball has even less: under one gram per kilogram of propylene glycol.

Wax can cost a hundred dollars a gram, while buds are as cheap as $20 these days.

Food business groups argue that a gram of sugar, natural or added, is a gram of sugar—so why distinguish it?

He was, he said, amazed that “a fraction of a gram of sugar had rendered [him] unconscious.”

Recognition of the pneumococcus depends upon its morphology, the fact that it is Gram-staining, and the presence of a capsule.

The great majority belong to the colon bacillus group, and are negative to Gram's method of staining.

A Gram-positive stool due to cocci is suggestive of intestinal ulceration.

Gram's method (p. 40) is a very useful aid in distinguishing certain bacteria.

This is a minute, slender rod, which lies within and between the pus-corpuscles (Fig. 125), and is negative to Gram's stain.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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