NICU
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4.1
- noun
- /ˈnɪk.ju/
- Specialized
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unidad de cuidados intensivos neonatales
- Embrace Infant Warmers help save babies' lives by keeping newborns warm when NICU incubators are not available.
- discharge from the NICU
- pediatric NICU
- NICU care
And Teddy was in the NICU in the crib with them the entire time.
- And Teddy was in the NICU in the crib with them the entire time.
- And, you know, Fast forward throughout that year, he ends up leaving the NICU after two months.
- And when he was born, he had to spend two months in the NICU.
- We, I didn't have the choice to not drive in a car because we were going back and forth to the NICU, which is another thing that I was, I'm processing in with MCR also.
Examples
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Premature birth and subsequent hospitalization of an infant in the Newborn (or Neonatal) Intensive Care Unit (NICU) are particularly stressful.
Academic text (2008) -
My sons were both NICU babies, and my oldest was in there for 7 weeks.
Blog text (2) -
And, you know, Fast forward throughout that year, he ends up leaving the NICU after two months.
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I mean, I, I will say my, my first son was placed in the NICU right after he was born.
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And, you know, they spent a long time in the NICU as well.
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Let's get him up to NICU.
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Finally, she said, "I'm going back to the NICU in the morning before my shift."
Fiction book (1995) -
Pierce went straight from delivery to NICU and stayed for 20 days.
Blog text (2) -
And Robin and Lisa just showed up because they had had kids in the NICU and they knew how scary it was.
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My son was born prematurely and was in the NICU, which made breastfeeding a challenge.
Synonyms
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A hospital area where very small or sick newborns get constant medical care
How Intensive
- Specialized
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Surface Forms
Morphology
NICU = N + I + C + U
NICU is an initialism (letters standing for 'neonatal intensive care unit'); the component letters do not independently convey the meaning to an average learner, so the word is opaque unless the expansion is known.
Etymology
NICU is a short form made from the first letters of neonatal ('newborn'), intensive ('very strong'), care, and unit ('part of a hospital'). So, a NICU is the special hospital place for very small or very sick newborn babies.