intensive care

1. 1.

   close monitoring and constant medical care of patients with life-threatening conditions

   Broadermedical care

Questions about intensive care

What does intensive care mean?

intensive care means "close monitoring and constant medical care of patients with life-threatening conditions".

Is intensive care a common word?

intensive care is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.