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  • noun medicine Initialism of intrauterine insemination.

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Examples

  • One of the most popular forms of artificial insemination is called IUI—intrauterine insemination.

    Getting Pregnant Niels H. Lauersen 2000

  • We actually did IUI, which is intra uterine insemination, where the ovaries are stimulated and then the sperm is implanted and basically whatever happens happens.

    CNN Transcript Feb 8, 2009 2009

  • We actually did IUI, which is intra uterine insemination, where the ovaries are stimulated and then the sperm is implanted and basically whatever happens happens.

    CNN Transcript Feb 2, 2009 2009

  • We actually did IUI, which is intrauterine insemination where the ovaries are stimulated and then the sperm is implanted and basically whatever happens, happens.

    CNN Transcript Feb 3, 2009 2009

  • IUI, which is a slightly more invasive and more expensive procedure—and which may also cause some cramping—appears to have higher success rates than ICI.

    OUR BODIES, OURSELVES The Boston Women’s Health Book Collective 2005

  • Hannah tried artificial insemination (aka IUI) 3 times before moving on to IVF.

    xml's Blinklist.com 2008

  • The day she had her second IUI procedure, a package arrived on our doorstep for me, filled with several different fertility medications.

    Times Two Kristen Henderson 2011

  • The doctor administered a shot of HCG, a drug that induces ovulation within twenty-four hours, and we returned on the following two mornings for intrauterine insemination, or IUI, procedures.

    Times Two Kristen Henderson 2011

  • The day she had her second IUI procedure, a package arrived on our doorstep for me, filled with several different fertility medications.

    Times Two Kristen Henderson 2011

  • Some plans cover fertility drugs to stimulate ovulation or intrauterine insemination (IUI, often called artificial insemination) but don't cover pricier assisted reproductive technology (ART) procedures, such as in vitro fertilization.

    Health insurance rules may decide whether infertility treatment is essential Michelle Andrews 2011

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