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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The quantity of a biologically active substance, such as a hormone or vitamin, required to produce a specific response.
- noun A unit of potency for similarly active substances, based on this quantity and accepted as an international standard.
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- noun A particular,
minute unit ofmass , defineddifferently for differentsubstances , but so that varying substances of the same general type have the property that one international unit of the one has the same effect on thehuman body as one international unit of the other.
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