ICU

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ICU mean? 

• ICU (noun)
  The noun ICU has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: ICU used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ICU (noun)

Sense 1

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 ("ICU" 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 "ICU"):

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 ("ICU" is a part of...):

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

 Context examples 

Critical care usually takes place in an intensive care unit (ICU) or trauma center.

(Critical Care, NIH)

Sepsis is the number one cause of death in all hospital Intensive Care Units (ICUs) world-wide.

(New study sheds fresh light on the genetic mechanisms involved in sepsis, the leading cause of death in ICUs, University of Granada)

The research involved determining the expression of clock genes in the blood of sepsis patients, and comparing it to that of patients who were not suffering sepsis but who were hospitalized in the same ICU (and, therefore, were under the same environmental conditions).

(New study sheds fresh light on the genetic mechanisms involved in sepsis, the leading cause of death in ICUs, University of Granada)