centum
/sen-tuhm/US // ˈsɛn təm //UK // (ˈsɛntəm) //
厘米,分数,百分之百,分钱
Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
- : one hundred.
Examples
Where such cases occur, patients should be fully prepared for the worst As a rule, the mortality is from 40 to 70 per centum.
Twenty-five per centum of all women over 60 years of age are found to have gall-stones.
It does more: in 90 per centum of cases it will prevent successful infection with smallpox.
Coins should be boiled, and paper money should be dipped in the 10 per centum carbolic acid solution and dried at a stove.
At least 70 per centum of the patients affected show a family history of insanity in some forms.
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