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INTENSIVE CARE UNIT

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• INTENSIVE CARE UNIT (noun)
The noun INTENSIVE CARE UNIT has 1 sense:

1. a hospital unit staffed and equipped to provide intensive care

Familiarity information: INTENSIVE CARE UNIT used as a noun is very rare.

• INTENSIVE CARE UNIT (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

A hospital unit staffed and equipped to provide intensive care

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

ICU; intensive care unit

Hypernyms ("intensive care unit" is a kind of...):

social unit; unit (an organization regarded as part of a larger social group)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "intensive care unit"):

coronary care unit (a hospital unit specially staffed and equipped to treat patients with serious cardiac problems)

neonatal intensive care unit; NICU (an intensive care unit designed with special equipment to care for premature or seriously ill newborn)

Holonyms ("intensive care unit" is a part of...):

hospital (a medical institution where sick or injured people are given medical or surgical care)

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(Arabic proverb)
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(Czech proverb)

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Meaning of hospital
Pronunciation of social unit
Meaning of neonatal intensive care unit
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