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Definition: ICU |
ICUNoun1. A hospital unit staffed and equipped to provide intensive care. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| 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. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
ICU | English | International Christian University | N/A |
ICU | French | Utilitaire de création interactive de graphiques | Computing |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "ICU."
Synonym: ICUSynonym: 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). |
Crosswords: ICU |
| Specialty definitions using "ICU": Extended System Configuration Data ♦ Motorola 14500B. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
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. | ||
| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 83.33% | 10 | 111,207 |
| Noun (proper) | 16.67% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 12 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| USA | Icu Medical, Inc. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency 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. | |
| 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. | ||
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. 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| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
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. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)49 43 55 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).. -.-. ..- |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001001 01000011 01010101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)I C U |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0049 0043 0055 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)433755 |
| 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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