Millimoles per litre (mmol/L)

Millimoles per litre (mmol/L)

Some medical tests report results in millimoles per litre (mmol/L).

  • A mole is an amount of a substance that contains a large number (6 followed by 23 zeros) of molecules or atoms. A millimole is one-thousandth of a mole.
  • A litre measures fluid volume. It is a little bigger than a quart.