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ICU

Definition: ICU

ICU

Noun

1. A hospital unit staffed and equipped to provide intensive care.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

"ICU" is a common misspelling or typo for: ice, iced, ices, icon, icy, incur.

 

Abbreviations & Acronyms: ICU

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.

EntrySourceExpressionField

ICU

EnglishInternational Christian UniversityN/A

ICU

FrenchUtilitaire de création interactive de graphiquesComputing

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Specialty Definition: ICU

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

ICU is an acronym. Its most common meaning is intensive care unit. It can also stand for terms including:

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "ICU."

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Synonym: ICU

Synonym: intensive care unit (n). (additional references)
Synonyms by domain: Industrial control unit (computing), Instruction Cache Unit (abbreviation, computing), Integrated control unit (computing), Interactive Chart Utility, Inter-connection Unit (public administration, computing), International Christian University (education), International Cycling Union (sports & leisure), Interrupt control unit (computing), intersection control unit (computing, transportation).

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Crosswords: ICU

Specialty definitions using "ICU": Extended System Configuration DataMotorola 14500B. (references)

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Commercial Usage: ICU

DomainTitle

References

  • Icu Medical, Inc.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

    (more reference examples)

  

Books

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: ICU

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

ICU personnel and equipment support vital functions to give patients their best chance for recovery. (references)

In both the ICU and CCU, visiting hours are strictly limited and usually only family members are allowed to see patients. (references)

For example, patients may be in a private (one- bed) or semiprivate (two-bed) room. The intensive care unit (also called the ICU) has special equipment and staff to care for very ill patients. (references)

Economic History

Egypt

The most promising sub-sectors include dialysis equipment and lasers, medical, laboratory equipment, and MRI and ICU monitoring equipment. (references)

Worker Rights

Ghana

A tribunal ruled that the action of the two ICU members actions were contrary to the country's labor laws. (references)

Ghana

The company reached an agreement on severance packages with the ICU, but the workers had rejected the settlement. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: ICU

"ICU" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 83.33% of the time. "ICU" is used about 12 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)83.33%10111,207
Noun (proper)16.67%2245,945
                    Total100.00%12N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Usage in Company Names: ICU

CountryName
USA

Icu Medical, Inc.

 (more examples...)

Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: ICU

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

icu

321

cam icu

70

icu medical

24

icu 2

22

icu psychosis

19

chat icu

13

icu ii

11

5.5 icu

11

icu nursing

10

icu messenger

7
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: ICU

Language Translations for "ICU"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Japanese Kanji 

  

集中治療室 (intensive care unit). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

しゅうちゅうちりょうしつ (intensive care unit). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

icuay.(various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: ICU

Derivations

Words containing "ICU": acicula, aciculae, acicular, aciculas, aciculum, aciculums, agricultural, agriculturalist, agriculturalists, agriculturally, agriculture, agricultures, agriculturist, agriculturists, amicus, anticult, anticultural, apiculate, apiculi, apicultural, apiculture, apicultures, apiculturist, apiculturists, apiculus, appendicular, aquiculture, aquicultures, arboricultural, arboriculture, arboricultures, articulable, articulacies, articulacy, articular, articulate, articulated, articulately, articulateness, articulatenesses, articulates, articulating, articulation, articulations, articulative, articulator, articulators, articulatory, atrioventricular, auricula, auriculae, auricular, auriculas, auriculate, avicular, aviculture, avicultures, aviculturist, aviculturists, bicultural, biculturalism, biculturalisms, bicuspid, bicuspids, canalicular, canaliculi, canaliculus, canicular, capsicum, capsicums, citriculture, citricultures, citriculturist, citriculturists, clavicular, cocurricular, colchicum, colchicums, conspicuities, conspicuity, conspicuous, conspicuously, conspicuousness, conspicuousnesses, corbicula, corbiculae, cubicula, cubiculum, curlicue, curlicued, curlicues, curlicuing, curricula, curricular, curriculum, curriculums, cuticula, cuticulae, cuticular, denticulate, denticulated, denticulation, denticulations, dicumarol, dicumarols, difficult, difficulties, difficultly, difficulty, disarticulate, disarticulated, disarticulates, disarticulating, disarticulation, disarticulations, diverticula, diverticular, diverticulitis, diverticulitises, diverticuloses, diverticulosis, diverticulum, doronicum, doronicums, epicure, epicurean, epicureanism, epicureanisms, epicureans, epicures, epicurism, epicurisms, epicuticle, epicuticles, epicuticular, extracurricular, extracurriculars, extravehicular, fascicular, fascicularly, fasciculate, fasciculated, fasciculation, fasciculations, fascicule, fascicules, fasciculi, fasciculus, ficus, ficuses, fisticuffs, floricultural, floriculture, floricultures, floriculturist, floriculturists, follicular, folliculitis, folliculitises, funicular, funiculars, funiculi, funiculus, geniculate, geniculated, gesticulant, gesticulate, gesticulated, gesticulates, gesticulating, gesticulation, gesticulations, gesticulative, gesticulator, gesticulators, gesticulatory, graticule, graticules, horticultural, horticulturally, horticulture, horticultures, horticulturist, horticulturists, inarticulacies, inarticulacy, inarticulate, inarticulately, inarticulateness, inarticulatenesses, inarticulates, inconspicuous, inconspicuously, inconspicuousness, inconspicuousnesses, interventricular, intraventricular, intraventricularly, lenticular, lenticule, lenticules, lodicule, lodicules, manicure, manicured, manicures, manicuring, manicurist, manicurists, mariculture, maricultures, mariculturist, mariculturists, matriculant, matriculants, matriculate, matriculated, matriculates, matriculating, matriculation, matriculations, meticulosities, meticulosity, meticulous, meticulously, meticulousness, meticulousnesses, millicurie, millicuries, misarticulate, misarticulated, misarticulates, misarticulating, modicum, modicums, multicultural, multiculturalism, multiculturalisms, multicurie, multicurrency, navicular, naviculars, nonagricultural, nonmatriculated, orbicular, orbicularly, orbiculate, ossicular, overarticulate, overarticulated, overarticulates, overarticulating, overparticular, paniculate, panicum, panicums, particular, particularise, particularised, particularises, particularising, particularism, particularisms, particularist, particularistic, particularists, particularities, particularity, particularization, particularizations, particularize, particularized, particularizes, particularizing, particularly, particulars, particulate, particulates, pediculate, pediculates, pediculoses, pediculosis, pediculous, pedicure, pedicured, pedicures, pedicuring, pedicurist, pedicurists, perpendicular, perpendicularities, perpendicularity, perpendicularly, perpendiculars, perspicuities, perspicuity, perspicuous, perspicuously, perspicuousness, perspicuousnesses, picul, piculs, pisciculture, piscicultures, practicum, practicums, preagricultural, proventriculi, proventriculus, radicular, rearticulate, rearticulated, rearticulates, rearticulating, reticula, reticular, reticulate, reticulated, reticulately, reticulates, reticulating, reticulation, reticulations, reticule, reticules, reticulocyte, reticulocytes, reticuloendothelial, reticulum, ridicule, ridiculed, ridiculer, ridiculers, ridicules, ridiculing, ridiculous, ridiculously, ridiculousness, ridiculousnesses, rubicund, rubicundities, rubicundity, sericultural, sericulture, sericultures, sericulturist, sericulturists, silicula, siliculae, siliculas, silvicultural, silviculturally, silviculture, silvicultures, silviculturist, silviculturists, spicula, spiculae, spicular, spiculation, spiculations, spicule, spicules, spiculum, suborbicular, supraventricular, sylviculture, sylvicultures, testicular, transpicuous, tricuspid, tricuspids, triticum, triticums, umbilicus, umbilicuses, unarticulated, utricular, utriculi, utriculus, vehicular, ventricular, ventriculi, ventriculus, vermicular, vermiculate, vermiculated, vermiculation, vermiculations, vermiculite, vermiculites, versicular, vesicula, vesiculae, vesicular, vesicularities, vesicularity, vesiculate, vesiculated, vesiculates, vesiculating. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: ICU

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

 Words containing the letters "c-i-u"
 

+1 letter: cuif, duci, fuci, huic, unci, uric.

 

+2 letters: aulic, auric, cubic, cubit, cuifs, cuing, cuish, culti, cumin, cupid, curia, curie, curio, cutie, cutin, cutis, fichu, ficus, humic, ictus, incur, incus, juice, juicy, lucid, ludic, mucid, mucin, music, oculi, picul, pubic, pudic, quick, runic, scudi, sulci, tunic, umiac, uncia, ureic.

 

+3 letters: abulic, acinus, acquit, acuity, aculei, aecium, amicus, anuric, brucin, bustic, caique, caulis, cerium, cesium, chiaus, cilium, cinque, circus, cirque, cirrus, cistus, citrus, clique, cliquy, cluing, coitus, conium, corium, coulis, cousin, crinum, cruise, cubics, cubing, cubism, cubist, cubits, cuboid, cuddie, cueing, cuisse, cullis, cultic, cumins, cummin, cumuli, cupids, cupric, curari, curiae, curial, curies, curing, curios, curite, curium, currie, cuspid, cuspis, cuties, cutins, dictum, discus, duckie, fichus, fucoid, fundic, fungic, fustic, guaiac, hiccup, incubi, incult, incurs, incuse, induce, induct, juiced, juicer, juices, kickup, leucin, loculi, lubric, luckie, luetic, miscue, miscut, mucins, mucoid, muonic, muscid, musics, neumic, nuclei, nuncio, oilcup, pickup, piculs, public, pumice, quaich, quiche, quicks, quince, quinic, quitch, rictus, rubric, rustic, schuit, sluice, sluicy, toluic, tunica, tunics, umiack, umiacs, unchic, unciae, uncial, uncini, unclip, uncoil, unific, unpick, upcoil, uptick, uracil, uranic, uratic, urchin, uremic, uretic, vicuna, viscus.

 

+4 letters: aboulic, acequia, acicula, acinous, acquire, acquits, apiculi, aquatic, auction, augitic, auricle, auspice, auxetic, auxinic, biscuit, bivouac, brucine, brucins, bubonic, bucking, buckish, bucolic, bulimic, bustics, butyric, cacique, cadmium, caducei, caesium, caiques, calcium, calculi, cambium, caribou, carious, casuist, cauline, causing, caustic, caution, cazique, ceriums, cesiums, charqui, chibouk, chillum, chirrup, chuting, chutist, ciboule, cingula, cinques, circuit, circusy, cirques, cirrous, citrous, citrusy, cliqued, cliques, cliquey, clueing, clupeid, coenuri, conduit, congius, coniums, copihue, copious, coquina, coquito, couloir, council, couping, courier, cousins, couthie, cranium, crinums, crissum, crittur, croquis, crucial, crucian, crucify, crudity, cruised, cruiser, cruises, crummie, crusily, cubbies, cubbish, cubical, cubicle, cubicly, cubisms, cubists, cubital, cuboids, cuddies, cuffing, cuirass, cuishes, cuisine, cuisses, cuittle, culices, culicid, cullied, cullies, culling, cullion, culming, culprit, cultish, cultism, cultist, cumarin, cummins, cunning, cuplike, cuppier, cupping, cuprite, curaris, curbing, curdier, curding, curiosa, curious, curites, curiums, curlier, curlily, curling, curried, currier, curries, curring, currish, cursing, cursive, curtail, curtain, curvier, curving, cushier, cushily, cushion, cuspids, cussing, cutesie, cuticle, cutises, cutline, cutties, cutting, daturic, decidua, deucing, dictums, discuss, druidic, duchies, duckier, duckies, ducking, duckpin, ductile, ducting, dulcify, duncish, dunitic, dysuric, echinus, educing, epicure, eucaine, eucrite, eugenic, eupneic, faucial, ficuses, flueric, fluidic, fluoric, fuchsia, fuchsin, fucking, fucoids, fumaric, funicle, fustics, guaiacs, haircut, hiccups, icterus, ictuses, include, inconnu, incrust, incubus, incudal, incudes, incurve, incused, incuses, induced, inducer, induces, inducts, inocula, insculp, iracund, ischium, juicers, juicier, juicily, juicing, juridic, justice, kickups, kingcup, leucine, leucins, leucite, linecut, linocut, lucidly, lucifer, luckier, luckies, luckily, lucking, luetics, lunatic, midcult, miscued, miscues, miscuts, modicum, muckier, muckily, mucking, mucoids, murices, muscids, musical, noctuid, nucelli, nuclein, nuclide, nudnick, numeric, nuncios, nutpick, occiput, oculist, oilcups, ouching, outchid, outkick, oviduct, panicum, paucity, peculia, penuchi, piceous, pickups, picquet, picture, plumbic, prussic, publics, puckish, pumiced, pumicer, pumices, puranic, quadric, quaichs, quantic, quartic, quiches, quicken, quicker, quickie, quickly, quinces, quintic, raucity, recruit, reincur, rheumic, ricinus, rubidic, rubrics, ruching, rucking, ruction, rustics, sacculi, saucier, saucily, saucing, schuits, sciurid, sculpin, scurril, sickout, sluiced, sluices, spicula, spicule, squinch, stickum, stickup, subacid, suberic, succubi, sucking, suction, suffice, suicide, trucing, tucking, tunicae, tunicle, umbonic, umiacks, unchain, uncials, uncinal, uncinus, uncivil, unclips, uncoils, uncomic, unction, unhitch, unicorn, uniface, unpicks, unstick, unvoice, upclimb, upcoils, upticks, uracils, uraemic, urchins, utricle, uveitic, vacuity, viaduct, vicious, victual, vicugna, vicunas, vincula, viscous, wickiup, wickyup, yuckier, yucking, zincous, zoecium.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: ICU


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

49 43 55

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

=

Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

..    -.-.    ..-

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001001 01000011 01010101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#73 &#67 &#85

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0049 0043 0055

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

433755

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Quotations: Non-fiction
6. Usage Frequency
7. Names: Company Usage
8. Expressions: Internet
9. Translations: Modern
10. Abbreviations
11. Acronyms
12. Derivations
13. Anagrams
14. Orthography
15. Bibliography


  

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