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per centum
[ per sen-tuhm ]
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Word History and Origins
Origin of per centum1
1555–65; < Latin: literally, by the hundred
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Example Sentences
Where such cases occur, patients should be fully prepared for the worst As a rule, the mortality is from 40 to 70 per centum.
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Twenty-five per centum of all women over 60 years of age are found to have gall-stones.
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It does more: in 90 per centum of cases it will prevent successful infection with smallpox.
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Coins should be boiled, and paper money should be dipped in the 10 per centum carbolic acid solution and dried at a stove.
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At least 70 per centum of the patients affected show a family history of insanity in some forms.
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