ICU

English

Noun

ICU (plural ICUs)

2. (medicine) Initialism of intensive care unit.

   Synonyms: CCU, ITU

   Hyponyms: SICU, PICU, NICU, CICU

   • 2021 August 14, Christina Maxouris, “‘Bursting at the seams’: Full ICUs are creating a dangerous ER backlog and forcing hospitals to cancel surgeries”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     A day earlier, state epidemiologist Dr. Paul Byers warned the minimal available ICU capacity meant dozens of patients are waiting in emergency rooms for an ICU bed. […] “We desperately needed the nursing support because our ICUs are so inundated with critically ill Covid patients,” Brown said.

4. (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, uti (es) f (Chile)
• Swedish: IVA c, iva (sv) c
• Thai: หน่วยอภิบาล (nùai-à-pí-baan), ไอซียู (th) (ai-sii-yuu)
• Vietnamese: HSTC ("hồi sức tích cực")
• Xibe: ᠠᡞ
  ᠰᡟᡞ
  ᡞᡠ (ai syi io)

Proper noun

ICU

1. Initialism of International Christian University, a private university located in Tokyo.
2. (software, Unicode) Initialism of International Components for Unicode: software libraries supporting internationalization.
3. (historical) Initialism of Islamic Courts Union: a belligerent in Somali Civil War.

Phrase

ICU

1. (Internet slang, text messaging) Abbreviation of I see you.

References

• „ICU“ on Abkürzungen.de

Further reading

• ICU on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• CUI, Cui, UCI, UIC

Indonesian

Etymology

From English ICU (“intensive care unit”).

Noun

ICU

1. intensive care unit, a hospital ward into which critically ill patients, in danger of dying, are admitted and closely monitored

Further reading

• “ICU”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016