intensive care unit

1. 1.

   a hospital unit staffed and equipped to provide intensive care

   SynonymsICU

   Broaderunit

   Narrowercoronary care unitneonatal intensive care unit

   Part ofhospital

Questions about intensive care unit

What does intensive care unit mean?

intensive care unit means "a hospital unit staffed and equipped to provide intensive care".

What is another word for intensive care unit?

Close synonyms include ICU. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is intensive care unit a common word?

intensive care unit 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.