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Practical Applications 41. An infant's head measured 560mm. Document this in centimeters. 42. A patient drank 1250 mL of coffee. Document this in liters. 43. The medication comes in 75 mcg and 2.5 mg strengths. Explain which medication is stronger (a large 44. The length of the wound is 2.75 cm. Document this in millimeters. 45. The directions on the cough syrup said "take two tablespoons." How many teaspoons would be equivalent to tablespoons? 46. Explain which weight is larger, 5kg or 750g. 47. The incision measured 33 mm. Document this in centimeters. 48. The patient drank a IL bottle of soda. What is the milliliter equivalent? 49. The medication comes in 0.5g or 500 mg strengths. Explain which medication is weaker (a smaller strength 50. The syringe contains 1.5 ml of sterile water. Document this in cubic centimeters. All of the following statements are false. Determine the errors, then write the correct answer in a complete sentence. 51. A kilogram is a household measure for solid weight. 52. Drops are usually compared with ounces. 53. Drugs measured in units must be manufactured in a laboratory 54. Drops are easy to measure because the size of the aperture of the dropper prevents overdosing. 55. Volume refers to the amount or strength of a medication 56. When writing a metric measurement the abbreviation for units is written before the Arabic number 57. The "cubic centimeter may be phased out of medical documentation and replaced with the cubic millim 58. The yard is the base unit for length in the metric system. 59. The metric unit that is less than one whole unit yet not used in medicine to measure length is the micrometer 60. Blood would most likely be measured in metric meters