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English
Noun
ICU (plural ICUs)
- (medicine) Initialism of intensive care unit.
- Synonym: ITU
- Hyponyms: SICU, PICU, NICU, CICU
- (transport) Initialism of intersection capacity utilization: a measure of the capacity of a roadway intersection.
Translations
intensive care unit
- Basque: ZIU (eu) ("zainketa intentsiboetako unitatea")
- Catalan: UCI (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Hokkien: 加護病房/加护病房 (ka-hō͘-pēⁿ-pâng)
- Mandarin: 監護病房/监护病房 (jiānhù bìngfáng), 重病監護室/重病监护室 (zhòngbìng jiānhùshì), 加護病房/加护病房 (zh) (jiāhù bìngfáng)
- Czech: JIP (cs) f
- Finnish: teho (fi)
- French: réa (fr) f
- German: Intensivstation (de) f, (informal) Intensiv f, (abbreviations less common than in English) IS (de) f, IPS (de) f
- Greek: ΜΕΘ (el) (METh)
- Hungarian: intenzív (hu), ITO
- Indonesian: ICU
- Japanese: ICU (ja) (ICU)
- Polish: OIT (pl) ("oddział intensywnej terapii"), OITM
- Portuguese: UTI (pt) (Brazil), UCI (pt) f (Portugal)
- Russian: ОРИТ n (ORIT) ("отделе́ние реанима́ции и интенси́вной терапи́и")
- Slovak: JIS
- Spanish: UCI (es) f
- Swedish: IVA c, iva (sv) c
- Thai: หน่วยอภิบาล (nùai-à-pí-baan), ไอซียู (th) (ai-sii-yuu)
- Vietnamese: HSTC ("hồi sức tích cực")
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Proper noun
ICU
- Initialism of International Christian University, a private university located in Tokyo.
- Initialism of international components for Unicode: software libraries supporting internationalization.
Phrase
ICU
- (Internet slang, text messaging) Abbreviation of I see you.
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Etymology
From English ICU (“intensive care unit”).
Noun
ICU
- intensive care unit, a hospital ward into which critically ill patients, in danger of dying, are admitted and closely monitored.
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