Medical Terminology / Unit 15 MedTerm 0967 short lesson, about 20 seconds
IU Misread
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The idea
The abbreviation IU, for international unit, is error-prone because it can be read as IV or as the digit ten.
In practice
The recommendation is that international unit is written out in full.
Where people slip
U and IU are separate entries on the error-prone list, and each is misread differently.
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