Cm (centimeter)
A unit of measure in the metric system which is 1/100'th of a meter.
There are 2.54 centimeters (cms) in one inch.
The centimeter is commonly used in medicine to state the size of objects or distance between points.</P> It may seem senseless to define a centimeter in a medical dictionary but in North American medicine (and medicine everywhere) today, length measurements are usually expressed in such metric units and not in inches or feet.