IUI
Noun
Meaning
IUI (plural IUIs)
(medicine) Initialism of intrauterine insemination.
Examples
Had my First IUI last Wednesday.
I’m hopeful for IUI number 2. I’m 34 and I feel that clock tick tocking away!
IUI can also be performed using sperm from a donor if the male partner has a low number of healthy sperm.
IUI (Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces): http://iui.
The red clocks of the title are uteruses belonging to Zumas’ five archetypal protagonists, all living in the same town on the Oregon coast: The biographer, Ro, is a teacher in her 40s trying to get pregnant through IUI before it becomes a crime.
Sperm donors are sorted according to procedure – I’m looking for IUI donors (fast-swimming sperm) as opposed to IVF donors, which don’t require the same speed (during IVF, the sperm is handily united with the egg in a petri dish).