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intensive care unit

noun

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


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Word History and Origins

Origin of intensive care unit1

First recorded in 1960–65
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Vanellope is taken to the children's paediatric intensive care unit and will spend some time in hospital recovering.

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In the neonatal intensive care unit, parents are not only dealing with the day-to-day medical reality, but they’re also “grieving the imagined baby — the baby you thought you were going to have,” Lakatos said.

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Hailey was rushed to the intensive care unit, but hospital staff soon delivered the devastating news: She had died from amniotic fluid embolism, a complication Okula had never heard of before.

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If the virus is detected early and the infected person receives medical attention in an intensive care unit, the ALA said, there is a chance the person will improve.

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She had to watch a live stream of her mum Maria Rico's funeral from the intensive care unit at the Leicester Royal Infirmary, after they were both admitted on the same day in October 2020.

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