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intensive care unit
noun
- the specialized center in a hospital where intensive care is provided. : ICU
Word History and Origins
Origin of intensive care unit1
Example Sentences
Vanellope is taken to the children's paediatric intensive care unit and will spend some time in hospital recovering.
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.
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.
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.
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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