milliampere
- n one thousandth of an ampere
- In the current Medical Record he reports that he used electrical stimulation of eye muscles (two volts, one milliampere to each eye, 15 minutes three times a week), 75,000 units .
- Result: when a mother rat got a dose of one milliampere from the cathode (negative pole), the odds were 383-to-1 that her litter would be superior in intelligence; a dose of two .