intensive care

English

Noun

intensive care (uncountable)

1. (medicine) The support and monitoring of critically ill patients, especially by the use of instrumentation and specialized staff and equipment.

   Synonyms: critical care, intensive therapy, intensive treatment

2. (medicine, colloquial) Ellipsis of intensive care unit

Derived terms

• intensive care unit, ICU

Translations

support and monitoring of critically ill patients

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 特別監護, 特别监护 (tèbié jiānhù), 重症監護, 重症监护 (zhòngzhèng jiānhù), 重病監護, 重病监护 (zhòngbìng jiānhù)

• Finnish: tehohoito (fi)

• French: soins intensifs (fr) m pl, traitement intensif m
• Hungarian: intenzív terápia
• Japanese: 集中治療 (しゅうちゅうちりょう, shūchūchiryō)
• Russian: интенси́вная терапи́я f (intɛnsívnaja terapíja), интенси́вный ухо́д m (intɛnsívnyj uxód), реанима́ция (ru) f (reanimácija)
• Swedish: intensivvård (sv) c
• Turkish: yoğun bakım (tr)

Further reading

• intensive care on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• intensive care at OneLook Dictionary Search

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English intensive care.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪnˌtɛn.zɪf ˈkɛːr/

• Audio

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• Hyphenation: in‧ten‧sive care

Noun

intensive care m (plural intensive cares)

1. (medicine, uncountable) intensive care
2. (medicine, countable) intensive-care unit, ICU

See also

• intensivist