| ICCU | intensive coronary care unit; intermediate coronary care unit |
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| IOU | intensive care observation unit; international opacity unit |
| IRU | industrial rehabilitation unit; interferon reference unit |
| IU | immunizing unit; international unit; intrauterine; in utero; 5-iodouracil |
| KU | kallikrein unit; Karmen unit |
| laminar air flow unit | An air-filtering system used at some transplant facilities to remove particulate matter and fungi from the air. (16 Dec 1997) |
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| lung unit | A respiratory bronchiole together with the alveolar ducts and sacs and pulmonary alveoli into which the respiratory bronchiole leads, considered by some to include the terminal bronchiole and its subdivisions, and called a pulmonary acinus. (05 Mar 2000) |