Diphtheria. An acute infectious disease of humans caused by Corynebacterium diphtheriae. Classically, the disease is characterized by low-grade fever, sore throat, and a pseudomembrane covering the tonsils and pharynx.
Statistician / Economist formerly employed in various Government Departments in the UK, freelance mathematics and statistics tutor since retiring in 2008, Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society. 1 second = 100 centiseconds. To help you remember, 1 meter = 100 centimeters and centi- anything is the same.
1000 milliseconds. the SI prefix milli means 1 thousandth, therefore if a millisecond is a thousandth of a second, then 1000 millliseconds have to combine to make a second. The prefix is familiar, and is commonly used as millilitre, milligram and millimetre, each meaning the same, 1/1000.