millicurie
/ˈmɪlɪˌkjʊri/
noun
- A unit of radioactivity equal to one thousandth of a curie.
- The patient received a dose of 2 millicuries of a radioactive tracer for the scan.
- A millicurie is a small but measurable amount of radioactive material.
- The lab used a sample with an activity of 5 millicuries for the experiment.