In the CGS system, the unit of viscosity equal to 1 dyne-second per square centimeter and to 0.1 pascal-second. [J.-L. M. Poiseuille]
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poise 'pȯiz, 'pwäz n a cgs unit of viscosity equal to the viscosity of a fluid that would require a shearing force of one dyne to impart to a one square-centimeter area of an arbitrary layer of the fluid a velocity of one centimeter per second relative to another layer separated from the first by a distance of one centimeter
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(P) (poiz) (pwahz) [Jean Leonard Marie Poiseuille, French physiologist, 1799–1869] a unit of viscosity of a liquid, equivalent to 10−1 pascal·sec. The commonly used unit is the centipoise, or one hundredth of a poise.Medical dictionary. 2011.