• Millimètre

    Full definition of millimètre

    Noun

    millimètre

    (plural millimètres)
      • 1874, Half-yearly Compendium of Medical Science XIII–XIV, page 240:The patient was a little girl, who, after juxta-epiphysary osteitis of the tibia, presented, with an anchylosed knee, a shortening of 24 millimètres. An application of Vienna paste, and afterwards Canquoin’s was made over the front of the tibia; three months afterwards the shortening was only 11 millimètres.----
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