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Examples of nanogram in a Sentence
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Turner's bill, if passed, would set a legal limit of five nanograms of THC per milliliter of blood in a test taken within two hours of driving a vehicle.
—The Courier-Journal, 17 Jan. 2024
For example, a normal level is less than 25 nanograms per milliliter (ng/mL) for someone who is not pregnant.
—Lambeth Hochwald, Parents, 7 Jan. 2024
Based on this evidence, the committee concluded that the bone-strengthening benefits of vitamin D plateau when blood levels (as measured by a standard vitamin D blood test) reach 12 to 16 nanograms per milliliter.
—Christie Aschwanden, Scientific American, 19 Dec. 2023
In most women my age, the concentration of androstenedione, a precursor to testosterone, is between thirty and two hundred and eighty-five nanograms per decilitre.
—S. C. Cornell, The New Yorker, 2 Dec. 2023
Toxicology results from the autopsy showed that the woman had 160 nanograms per milliliter of tetrahydrozoline, an amount one medical examiner said would have been impossible to have in one's system just by using eye droplets.
—Louis Casiano, Fox News, 15 Nov. 2023
The national academies recommended that patients with readings between 2 and 20 nanograms per milliliter limit additional exposure and screen for high cholesterol, breast cancer, and, if pregnant, high blood pressure.
—Patricia Kime, Hannah Norman, Kff Health News, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Sep. 2023
According to Leeper, 3 nanograms per milliliter of blood would be deadly.
—Nadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 14 July 2023
Normally, there should be no detectable troponin, or a very low level—below 0.04 nanograms per milliliter (ng/ml) in your blood.
—Heidi Moawad, Md, Verywell Health, 3 July 2023
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First Known Use
1951, in the meaning defined above
Dictionary Entries Near nanogram
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“Nanogram.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nanogram. Accessed 13 Jun. 2024.
Kids Definition
nanogram
noun
nano·gram
ˈnan-ə-ˌgram
: one billionth of a gram
Medical Definition
nanogram
noun
nano·gram
variants
or chiefly British nanogramme
: one billionth of a gram
—abbreviation ng
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