The unit of measure for urine specific gravity is

mL
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mg
mg/dL


None of these answers

Rationale: Specific gravity is always recorded with 1.xxx on a report and does not have units assigned to the measurement. The specific gravity is based on the concept that distilled water has a specific gravity of 1.000, and urine will have more dissolved substances and should therefore have a greater specific gravity than distilled water.

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