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.

   Synonyms: critical care, intensive therapy, intensive treatment

2. (medicine, colloquial) Ellipsis of intensive care unit.

Derived terms

• intensive care unit, ICU

Descendants

Descendants

• → Turkish: yoğun bakım (calque)

Translations

support and monitoring of critically ill patients

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 特別監護／特别监护 (tèbié jiānhù), 重症監護／重症监护 (zhòngzhèng jiānhù), 重病監護／重病监护 (zhòngbìng jiānhù)

• Czech: please add this translation if you can
• Dutch: intensive care (nl) m (Netherlands), intensieve zorg (nl) f (Belgium)
• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: tehohoito (fi)
• French: soins intensifs (fr) m pl, traitement intensif m, réanimation (fr) f, réa (fr) f
• German: Intensivmedizin (de) f
• Hebrew: please add this translation if you can
• Hindi: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: intenzív terápia
• Indonesian: terapi intensif
• Japanese: 集中治療 (しゅうちゅうちりょう, shūchūchiryō)
• Khmer: ថែទាំដែលពឹងផ្អែក​ខ្លាំង (thaetŏəmdaelpɨngphʼaek-khlang)
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
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• Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
• Malay: rawatan rapi
• Polish: intensywna opieka medyczna f
• Romanian: terapie intensivă (ro) f
• Russian: интенси́вная терапи́я f (intɛnsívnaja terapíja), интенси́вный ухо́д m (intɛnsívnyj uxód), реанима́ция (ru) f (reanimácija)
• Swedish: intensivvård (sv) c
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: yoğun bakım (tr)
• Vietnamese: chăm sóc đặc biệt

Further reading

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

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English intensive care.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪnˌtɛn.zɪf ˈkɛːr/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: in‧ten‧sive care

Noun

intensive care m (plural intensive cares)

1. (medicine, uncountable) intensive care
2. (medicine, countable) intensive-care unit, ICU

See also

• intensivist