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The French catheter scale, also known as French gauge or Charriere (Ch) after the creator of the measurement scale, is commonly used in describing the diameter of medical devices/tubing. It was developed in the 1800's by a French surgical instruments maker, Joseph-Frederic-Benoit Charriere, to describe the circumference of medical tubing. The idea is that a non-circular tube will fit into the same incision or blood vessel as a round one. Therefore French size = 2*pi*r (where r is the radius in mm). Usually French size is considered to be 3 times the diameter in millimeters or 1Fr = 1/3mm.
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How should the diameter measurement called french be abbreviated?
FR or F is the common abbreviation for the diameter measurement French
What is the diameter of Cm?
A centimetre is a measurement unit. It can have no diameter.
What is the inside measurement of a circle called?
The inside measurement of a circle is called the diameter. It is the distance across the circle, passing through the center.
Is diameter the measurement around?
no. its the inside Diameter is the measurement from one side of the circle, through the center, to the opposite side. Circumference is the measurement around the circle.
How do you find the diameter of a water balloon in qubic inches?
Diameter is a length measurement. Cubic inches is a volume measurement. Diameter cannot be measured in or converted to cubic inches.
How should the diameter measurement called french be abbreviated?
FR or F is the common abbreviation for the diameter measurement French
How many dia meter in 1 mm?
There is no such unit of measurement as a diameter - the diameter is the length across a certain object. There are units of measurement called a decimetre and a decametre.
Is there a country that is 50 square miles in diameter?
Square miles is a measurement of area. Diameter requires a distance measurement, not an area measurement.
What the diameter of an inch?
An inch is a unit of measurement. It has no diameter.
What is the diameter of Cm?
A centimetre is a measurement unit. It can have no diameter.
What is the inside measurement of a circle called?
The inside measurement of a circle is called the diameter. It is the distance across the circle, passing through the center.
Is diameter the measurement around?
no. its the inside Diameter is the measurement from one side of the circle, through the center, to the opposite side. Circumference is the measurement around the circle.
How do you find the diameter of a water balloon in qubic inches?
Diameter is a length measurement. Cubic inches is a volume measurement. Diameter cannot be measured in or converted to cubic inches.
What The measurement of the inside of a circle?
The longest measurement inside a circle is its diameter.
What is the abbreviation for the French measurement?
The abbreviation for the french measurement is "verge".
Which unit of measurement would be used to find the diameter of lung alveoli?
A micrometer is the unit of measurement to find the diameter of the lung alveoli.
What is the outside measurement of a circle called?
The distance around the outside of a circle is called the circumference. You can find this difference by multiplying the circles diameter by pi (3.141...).
