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A cubic centimetre or cubic centimeter (symbol cm3梩he abbreviation cc, though widely used, is deprecated) is a commonly used unit of volume
Volume

The volume of any solid, liquid, plasma, vacuum or theoretical object is how much three-dimensional space it occupies, often quantified numerically....
 extending the derived SI
International System of Units

The International System of Units is the modern form of the metric system and is generally a system devised around the convenience of the number ten....
-unit cubic metre
Cubic metre

The cubic metre is the SI derived unit of volume. It is the volume of a cube with edges one metre in length. An alternative name, which allowed a different usage with SI prefix, was the st?re....
 and corresponds to the volume of a cube measuring 1󪻑 cm. One cubic centimetre corresponds to a volume of of a cubic metre, or of a litre
Litre

The litre or liter is a unit of volume. There are two official symbols: the Latin letter L in lower and upper case . The lower case L is often written as a cursive l to avoid confusion with the number 1 in antiqua fonts....
; therefore, 1 cm3 = 1 ml. The mass of one cubic centimetre of water
Water

Water is a common chemical substance that is essential for the survival of all known forms of life. In typical usage, water refers only to its liquid form or States of matter, but the substance also has a solid state, ice, and a gaseous state, water vapor or steam....
 at 3.98 癈 (the temperature at which it attains its maximal density) is equal to 1 gram
Gram

The gram , ; symbol g, is a Physical unit of mass.Originally defined as "the absolute weight of a volume of pure water equal to the cube of the hundredth part of a metre, and at the temperature of melting ice" , a gram is now defined as one one-thousandth of the SI base unit, the kilogram, or Scientific notation kg, which itself is...
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In many scientific
Science

In its broadest sense, science refers to any systematic knowledge or practice. In its more usual restricted sense, science refers to a system of acquiring knowledge based on scientific method, as well as to the organized body of knowledge gained through such research....
 fields, the use of cubic centimetres has been replaced by the millilitre.






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A cubic centimetre or cubic centimeter (symbol cm3梩he abbreviation cc, though widely used, is deprecated) is a commonly used unit of volume
Volume

The volume of any solid, liquid, plasma, vacuum or theoretical object is how much three-dimensional space it occupies, often quantified numerically....
 extending the derived SI
International System of Units

The International System of Units is the modern form of the metric system and is generally a system devised around the convenience of the number ten....
-unit cubic metre
Cubic metre

The cubic metre is the SI derived unit of volume. It is the volume of a cube with edges one metre in length. An alternative name, which allowed a different usage with SI prefix, was the st?re....
 and corresponds to the volume of a cube measuring 1󪻑 cm. One cubic centimetre corresponds to a volume of of a cubic metre, or of a litre
Litre

The litre or liter is a unit of volume. There are two official symbols: the Latin letter L in lower and upper case . The lower case L is often written as a cursive l to avoid confusion with the number 1 in antiqua fonts....
; therefore, 1 cm3 = 1 ml. The mass of one cubic centimetre of water
Water

Water is a common chemical substance that is essential for the survival of all known forms of life. In typical usage, water refers only to its liquid form or States of matter, but the substance also has a solid state, ice, and a gaseous state, water vapor or steam....
 at 3.98 癈 (the temperature at which it attains its maximal density) is equal to 1 gram
Gram

The gram , ; symbol g, is a Physical unit of mass.Originally defined as "the absolute weight of a volume of pure water equal to the cube of the hundredth part of a metre, and at the temperature of melting ice" , a gram is now defined as one one-thousandth of the SI base unit, the kilogram, or Scientific notation kg, which itself is...
.

In many scientific
Science

In its broadest sense, science refers to any systematic knowledge or practice. In its more usual restricted sense, science refers to a system of acquiring knowledge based on scientific method, as well as to the organized body of knowledge gained through such research....
 fields, the use of cubic centimetres has been replaced by the millilitre. The medical
Medicine

Medicine is the art and science of healing. It encompasses a range of health care practices evolved to maintain and restore health by the prevention and treatment of illness....
 and automotive
Automobile

An automobile or motor car is a wheeled motor vehicle for transportation passengers, which also carries its own car engine or motor. Most definitions of the term specify that automobiles are designed to run primarily on roads, to have seating for one to eight people, to typically have four wheels, and to be constructed principally f...
 fields are two of the few fields wherein the term cubic centimetre was never discontinued in the United States. In the United Kingdom millilitres are used in preference to cubic centimetres in the medical field, but not the automotive. Most other English-speaking countries follow the UK example, but the use of cubic centimetres persists everywhere.

There is currently a movement within the medical field to discontinue the use of "cc" in prescriptions and on medical documents as it can be mis-read as "00" if poor handwriting is used, which can result in a massive, even lethal, overdose of medication. In the United States, confusion resulting from using "cc" to mean "ml" accounts for 12.6% of all errors associated with medical abbreviations.

Within Wikipedia itself, while "cc" is not officially prohibited per the Joint Commission's "Do Not Use" list of prohibited abbreviations, it is on the list as a candidate for possible inclusion on future lists, with "ml" or "milliliters" as suggested replacements.