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ICU
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English
Noun
en Q5094647 en medical en intensive care unit<id:Q5094647>.
en CCU<id:Q5094647> ITU<id:Q5094647>
en SICU PICU NICU CICU
en Christina Maxouris ‘Bursting at the seams’: Full ICUs are creating a dangerous ER backlog and forcing hospitals to cancel surgeries w:CNN https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/14/us/full-icus-summer-covid-surge 2021-08-14 A day earlier, state epidemiologist Dr. Paul Byers warned the minimal available ICU capacity meant dozens of patients are waiting in emergency rooms for an ICU bed. “We desperately needed the nursing support because our ICUs are so inundated with critically ill Covid patients,” Brown said. https://web.archive.org/web/20211002095206/https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/14/us/full-icus-summer-covid-surge/ 2 October 2021
en Q6056710 en transport en w:intersection capacity utilization: a measure of the capacity of a roadway intersection.
Translations
intensive care unit
Basque: eu ZIU ("zainketa intentsiboetako unitatea")
Catalan: ca UCI f
Chinese:
Hokkien: nan-hbl 加護病房 ka-hō͘-pēⁿ-pâng
Mandarin: cmn 監護病房 jiānhù bìngfáng, cmn 重病監護室 zhòngbìng jiānhùshì, cmn 加護病房 jiāhù bìngfáng
Czech: cs JIP f
Finnish: fi teho
French: fr réa f
German: de Intensivstation f, informal de Intensiv f, abbreviations less common than in English de IS f, de IPS f
Greek: el ΜΕΘ
Hungarian: hu intenzív, hu ITO
Indonesian: id ICU
Japanese: ja ICU
Polish: pl OIT ("oddział intensywnej terapii"), pl OITM
Portuguese: pt UTI Brazil, pt UCI f Portugal
Russian: ru ОРИТ n ("отделе́ние реанима́ции и интенси́вной терапи́и")
Slovak: sk JIS
Spanish: es UCI f, es uti f Chile
Swedish: sv IVA c, sv iva c
Thai: th หน่วยอภิบาล, th ไอซียู
Vietnamese: vi HSTC ("hồi sức tích cực")
Xibe: sjo ᠠᡞ ᠰᡟᡞ ᡞᡠ ai syi io
Proper noun
en International Christian University, a private university located in Tokyo.
en software Unicode en w:International Components for Unicode: software libraries supporting internationalization.
en historical en Islamic Courts Union: a belligerent in Somali Civil War.
Phrase
phr
en internet slang text messaging en I see you.
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Anagrams
en ciu CUI Cui UCI UIC
en gramograms
Indonesian
id:
Etymology
From id en ICU intensive care unit.
Noun
id noun
intensive care unit, a hospital ward into which critically ill patients, in danger of dying, are admitted and closely monitored
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