neonatal intensive care unit

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   an intensive care unit designed with special equipment to care for premature or seriously ill newborn

   SynonymsNICU

   Broaderintensive care unit

Questions about neonatal intensive care unit

What does neonatal intensive care unit mean?

neonatal intensive care unit means "an intensive care unit designed with special equipment to care for premature or seriously ill newborn".

What is another word for neonatal intensive care unit?

Close synonyms include NICU. 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 neonatal intensive care unit a common word?

neonatal 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.