intensive care

See also: 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.
2. (medicine, colloquial) Shortening 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, 特别监护 (tèbié jiānhù)

• Finnish: tehohoito
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• French: soins intensifs m pl, traitement intensif m
• Russian: интенси́вная терапи́я f (intɛnsívnaja terapíja), интенси́вный ухо́д m (intɛnsívnyj uxód), реанима́ция (ru) f (reanimácija)
• Swedish: intensivvård (sv) c

Further reading

• intensive care on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “intensive care”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.