ICU

English

Noun

ICU (plural ICUs)

2. (medicine) Initialism of intensive care unit.

   Synonyms: CCU, ITU

   Hyponyms: SICU, PICU, NICU, CICU

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. 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

Indonesian Wikipedia has an article on:

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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, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.