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the unit small enough to flavor your coffee or end your enemies.
means A metric unit of mass equal to one-thousandth of a gram, used wherever tiny quantities matter.
from A French-built compound from the metric system: the prefix 'milli-' comes from Latin 'mille,' meaning 'thousand,' bolted onto 'gram,' which traveled through French 'gramme' from Late Latin 'gramma' (a small weight) and ultimately Greek 'gramma,' originally 'something written' and later a small unit of measure. So a milligram is, quite literally, a 'thousandth of a little written weight.'
definitionOne thousandth of a single gram
deadly doseBotulinum toxin kills at micrograms, not milligrams
caffeineYour morning cup holds about 95 milligrams
weighing trickA grain of sand averages roughly one milligram
drug labelsMost pills are measured in milligrams