intensive care unit
18
3.1
- noun
- /ɪnˈtɛnsɪv kɛr ˈjunɪt/
- Specialized
:
unidad de cuidados intensivos
- One person was admitted to the intensive care unit, and shock subsequently developed.
- intensive care unit (ICU)
- neonatal intensive care unit
- pediatric intensive care unit
And that causes huge burden on the intensive care units across the country.
- And that causes huge burden on the intensive care units across the country.
- So as I'm sure you know, our intensive care units are busy.
- They check him in to the ICU intensive care unit.
- They, they have a double risk of winding up in the intensive care unit.
- Have you ever been in the neonatal intensive care unit or the pediatric intensive care unit because of a genetic problem?
- Also, intensive care units in Spain and Italy are struggling with a new surge of COVID cases.
- The Chancellor of Germany declaring that German intensive care units would be full within a few weeks.
- And this type of data is really prevalent in intensive care units.
Examples
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What they're saying is that the Princess is in the intensive care unit of a southeast Paris hospital.
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Ryan, a 2-year-old boy, is admitted to the intensive care unit (PICU) with hematemesis, diarrhea, and hypotension.
Academic text (2007) -
I see no reason not to transfer her to the intensive care unit.
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After one and a half hours of travel, the patient was presented to another intensive care unit.
Academic text (2007) -
The patient was admitted to the intensive care unit for a few days and then released.
Academic text (2006) -
They would get him into the intensive care unit in hospital as quickly as possible.
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In the intensive care unit, six doctors and 34 nurses are on duty for him.
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Julie works in the intensive care unit at St. Joseph's Medical Center in Kansas City, Missouri, which provided her family with health insurance.
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I walked alongside the man's stretcher as he was moved upstairs to the intensive care unit.
Fiction book (1991) -
The patient was admitted to the intensive care unit for immediate treatment after the accident.
Synonyms
106
3.7
A hospital area where very sick people get constant medical care
50
3.0
A hospital unit where very ill people get constant monitoring and treatment
How Intensive
Surface Forms
Morphology
The overall meaning is directly compositional: 'intensive' (high-level/urgent), 'care' (medical treatment or supervision), and 'unit' (a department or section) combine to denote a hospital department providing intensive medical care. This is a common, cross-linguistic noun phrase pattern and would be understandable to a B1 learner who knows the constituent words.
Etymology
Intensive care unit comes from the idea that intensive means very strong, care means close help, and unit means a separate room or team where staff work together. So, it means 'a special area in a hospital' where very sick people are watched closely all the time.