Medical Dictionary

rat unit

noun

Medical Definition of RAT UNIT

:  a bioassay unit consisting of the amount of a material (as a vitamin) that under standardized conditions is just sufficient to produce a specified response in all or a designated proportion of a group of experimental rats

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