ICU

English

Noun

ICU (plural ICUs)

1. (medicine) Initialism of intensive care unit.

   Synonym: ITU

   Hyponyms: SICU, PICU, NICU, CICU

2. (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
• Swedish: IVA c, iva (sv) c
• Thai: หน่วยอภิบาล (nùai-à-pí-baan), ไอซียู (th) (ai-sii-yuu)
• Vietnamese: HSTC ("hồi sức tích cực")

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.

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

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.