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international biological standards| Drugs (such as penicillin and insulin) of which the activity for a specific mass (called the international unit, or IU), prepared and stored under specific conditions, serves as a standard for measuring doses. For penicillin, one IU is the activity of 0.0006 mg of the sodium salt of penicillin, so a dose of a million units would be 0.6 g. |
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