Taber's Medical Dictionary
centimeter
(sent′ĭ-mēt″ĕr )
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ABBR: cm One hundredth of a meter.
SEE: metric system
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Venes, Donald, editor. "Centimeter." Taber's Medical Dictionary, 25th ed., F.A. Davis Company, 2025. Nursing Central, nursing.unboundmedicine.com/nursingcentral/view/Tabers-Dictionary/748295/all/centimeter.
Centimeter. In: Venes DD, ed. Taber's Medical Dictionary. F.A. Davis Company; 2025. https://nursing.unboundmedicine.com/nursingcentral/view/Tabers-Dictionary/748295/all/centimeter. Accessed April 9, 2025.
Centimeter. (2025). In Venes, D. (Ed.), Taber's Medical Dictionary (25th ed.). F.A. Davis Company. https://nursing.unboundmedicine.com/nursingcentral/view/Tabers-Dictionary/748295/all/centimeter
Centimeter [Internet]. In: Venes DD, editors. Taber's Medical Dictionary. F.A. Davis Company; 2025. [cited 2025 April 09]. Available from: https://nursing.unboundmedicine.com/nursingcentral/view/Tabers-Dictionary/748295/all/centimeter.
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