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mass medical definition
noun
- A unified body of matter with no specific shape.
- A grouping of individual parts or elements that compose a unified body of unspecified size or quantity.
- The physical volume or bulk of a solid body.
- Abbr. m The measure of the quantity of matter that a body or an object contains. The mass of the body is not dependent on gravity and therefore is different from but proportional to its weight.
- A thick, pasty pharmacological mixture containing drugs from which pills are formed.
- One of the seven fundamental SI units, the kilogram.
- See massa.
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