Advertisement

Advertisement

View synonyms for

intensive care unit

noun

  1. the specialized center in a hospital where intensive care is provided. ICU



Discover More

Word History and Origins

Origin of intensive care unit1

First recorded in 1960–65
Discover More

Example Sentences

Examples have not been reviewed.

Nasser hospital still has a working neo-natal intensive care unit, and it is full.

From

Nine years later, the same track was playing as Joanne Stringfellow, 55, walked down a corridor at an intensive care unit to marry him.

From

As we walked through the intensive care unit, some children lay unconscious on their beds, others thrashed in pain.

From

Some women with babies in the neonatal intensive care unit said they were left to manage their own recovery and were unable able to see their babies.

From

Vanellope is taken to the children's paediatric intensive care unit and will spend some time in hospital recovering.

From

Advertisement

Advertisement

Advertisement

Advertisement

Advertisement


intensive careintent