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Definition: Intensive Care |
Intensive CareNoun1. Close monitoring and constant medical care of patients with life-threatening conditions. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Health | Advanced and highly specialized care provided to medical or surgical patients whose conditions are life-threatening and require comprehensive care and constant monitoring. It is usually administered in specially equipped units of a health care facility. (references) |
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Crosswords: Intensive Care |
| English words defined with "intensive care": ICU, intensive care unit ♦ neonatal intensive care unit, NICU. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "intensive care": Burn Units ♦ Coronary Care Units ♦ emt-paramedic ♦ intensive care medicine, Intensive Care Units, Intensive Care Units, Neonatal, Intensive Care Units, Pediatric, Intensive Care, Neonatal ♦ medical information bus ♦ Progressive Patient Care ♦ Respiratory Care Units. (references) |
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Lyrics | And put her in intensive care (Goodbye Earl; performing artist: Dixie Chicks) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Intensive Care (1974) A Parent's Guide to the Intensive Care Nursery (1988) Intensive Care (1982) | |
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 | A physician examines an infant in the intensive care unit (ICU), accompanied by the child's foster mother and various other medical staff. There are 3 different angles. See artwork: NCI-40. Credit: Bill Branson (photographer). |  | There are 8 images of doctors examining an infant in the intensive care unit (ICU). The images vary from the main group alone with a curtain pulled to the curtain open with other staff in the background. See artwork: NCI-40. Credit: Bill Branson (photographer). |
 | A white nurse taking care of a baby in an intensive care unit. See artwork: NCI-40a. Credit: Bill Branson (photographer). |  | [Interior of intensive care unit]. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | An intensive care unit at the A.L. Miasnikov Institute of Cardiology in Moscow. / WHO/Novosti photo. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | In an intensive care unit, monitoring by electrocardiograph continues day and night. / WHO p. Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by E. Mandelmann.. |
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Health | The earlier the patient is brought in to intensive care, the better. (references) | |
Newborn nurseries, including neonatal intensive care units, should be made quieter. (references) | ||
Early intensive care management is important, with prompt correction of electrolyte, pulmonary, and hemodynamic abnormalities. (references) | ||
Business | Construction of two intensive care units at Liaquat Medical College, Jamshoro, Karachi. (references) | |
Furthermore, these hospitals lack proper imaging, diagnostic, laboratory, operating, intensive care and monitoring equipment. (references) | ||
There is a constant need for diagnostic systems and equipment for heart disease, cancer and apparatus for intensive care units. (references) | ||
Children | Kiribati | The central hospital in Tarawa provides basic medical services, but not intensive care facilities. (references) |
Civil Liberties | Russia | During Glotov's interrogation, he was taken by ambulance to a hospital, placed in intensive care, and treated for a weak heart condition. (references) |
Economic History | Bahrain | The center also has a maternity ward and an intensive care unit. (references) |
Human Rights | Macedonia | Saiti was admitted to a local hospital's intensive care unit for treatment. (references) |
Travel | Indonesia | Note: A government hospital with a good intensive care unit. (references) |
Egypt | Emergency and intensive care facilities are limited outside Cairo. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Suriname | The union exempted nurses in critical departments, such as intensive care, from the action. (references) |
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Expressions using "intensive care": intensive care medicine ♦ intensive care unit ♦ Intensive Care Units ♦ mobile intensive care unit ♦ neonatal intensive care unit. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "intensive care"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | عناية مركزة, علاج مكثف. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | intensivpleje, intensiv behanding. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | intensive zorg, intensive care. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | soins intensifs. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Intensivtherapie (intensive therapy, intensive treatment), Intensivpflege, Intensivbehandlung (intensive therapy, intensive treatment). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | εντατική θεραπεία. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | intenzív osztály (emergency room). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | cure intensive. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 集中治療室 (ICU, intensive care unit). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | しゅうちゅうちりょうしつ (ICU, intensive care unit). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | boayl kiarail yeean (intensive care unit). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | intensiveay arecay cuidados intensivos. (various references) vigilancia intensiva, cuidados intensivos. (various references) intensivvårdsavdelning (intensive care unit). (various references) yoğun bakım. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-e-i-i-n-n-r-s-t-v" | |
-1 letter: inveteracies. | |
-2 letters: ancientries, centenaries, creatinines, incinerates, renitencies. | |
-3 letters: carnitines, creatinine, evanescent, eviscerate, incentives, incinerate, innervates, intervenes, nectarines, transience, veracities, vicereines. | |
-4 letters: ancienter, canneries, cannister, carnitine, centiares, cisternae, creatines, enceintes, enervates, entrances, incenters, incentive, innervate, insincere, intensive, internees, intervene, inventers, invertase, iterances, naiveties, narceines, navicerts, nectaries, nectarine, reincites, reinvents, reinvites, renascent, retinenes, revenants, secretive, sentience. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-e-e-i-i-n-n-r-s-t-v" | |
+1 letter: inadvertencies. | |
+5 letters: inappreciativeness. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)49 6E 74 65 6E 73 69 76 65 43 61 72 65 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001001 01101110 01110100 01100101 01101110 01110011 01101001 01110110 01100101 00100000 01000011 01100001 01110010 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)I n t e n s i v e   C a r e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0049 006E 0074 0065 006E 0073 0069 0076 0065 0043 0061 0072 0065 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)438086718085758871237678471 |
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vertaling, transferim, transmetim, ترجمة من لغة أجنبية للغة الأم, ترجمة, إفتتان, транслация, огъване, превод, предаване, поддаване, тълкуване, превеждане, 翻译, překlad, oversættelse, translatie, taajuusmuutos, translaatio, traduction, oersetting, Übersetzung, μετάφραση, תור'מ ות, תר'ום, "עתק", "עתק, fordítás, traduzione, 翻訳 , へい"ういどう, やくしょ, やくしゅつ, "うどく, ほ"やく, トランスレーション , やくじゅつ, ほ"やくしょ, 번역, tradukshon, tradução, translaţie, tãlmãcire, traducere, сдвиг, трансляция, перемещение, перевод, tumačenje, traducción, översättning, tercüme, процес перекладу, переклад, пояснення, переміщення, sự dịch, sự biến th nh sự giải thích, trosiad, for translation; Arabies, arabishte, العربية, عربي, اللغة العربية, арабски език, арабски, 阿拉伯 , arabský, arabština, arábiskt, arabialainen, arabe, Arabysk, arabisch, αραβικόσ, ערבית, ערבי, arab, arabo, 아라비아, Arabish, arabir, arabic, арабский, Arapi, arapski, árabe, arabisk, าษาหรืออักขระอาหรับ, เกี่ยวกับอาระเบีย, arapça, arap, araplara özgü, арабська мова, арабський, tiếng A-rập, thuộc A-rập, for Arabic; Deens, danisht, danishte, لغة الدانمركية, نوع كعك, دانماركي, датски език, датски, Daniko, 丹麦语, dánský, dánština, danskur, danskt, tanskalainen, danois, Deensk, dänisch, δανικόσ, δανόσ, עו'ת שמרים, " י, dán, danska, Danmhairgis, danese, 덴마크, Danvargish, Danvargagh, danes, dinamarquês, danez, датский, danski, danski jezik, danés, dansk, danimarkalı, danimarka dili, датський, датська мова, tiếng Đan-mạch, for Danish; Nederlands, Hollands, holandez, هولندي, اللغة الهولندية, холандски, немски език, холандски език, холандците, немски, Olandes, 菏蘭語 , 荷兰语, holandský, nizozemský, hollandsk, hollendskt, hollantilainen, néerlandais, Nederlânsk, holländisch, ολλανδικόσ, ολλανδόσ, holandisht, "ול "י, holland, hollenskur, Ollainnis, olandese, 네덜란", Belanda, Ollanish, Germaanish, Tatimana, nederlandsk, ulandes, hulandes, holandês, neerlandés, olandez, nemţesc, limba olandezã, german, голландский, holanđanin, u škripcu, holandski, holandés, bakratongo, holländsk, ชาวเนเธอร์แลน"์, เกี่ยวกับเนเธอร์แลน"์, รรยา, alman, eş, flemenkçe, holandaca, hollanda, karı, hollandalı, hollandalılara özgü olan, Hollandali, hollanda'ya ait, голландська мова, голландський, ngôn ngữ khó hiểu, "b xã", for Dutch; Franse taal, Frans, franceze, francez, frëngjisht, frëng, frëngjishte, فرنسي, اللغة الفرنسية, الشعب الفرنسي, gall, френски език, френски, Pranses, 法國 , 法文 , 法語 , 法语, francouzština, francouzský, franskur, franskt, ranskalainen, français, Frânsk, französisch, γάλλοσ, γαλλικόσ, γαλλική γλώσσα, γαλλίδα, צרפתי, צרפתית, francia, Fraincis, francese, フレコン化 , フランス" , 仏文 , 仏 , ふつぶ", フレンチ , フランセ , ふつ, "랑스, Perancis, Ny Frangee, Mooinjey ny Frank, frances, franses, francês, francezii, francezã, franţuzesc, franţuzeşte, французский, Falani, francuski jezik, francuski, francuzi, francés, sí-Fulentji, fransk, franska, fransızca, Fransiz, fransızca ile ilgili, fransız, fransa ile ilgili, французька мова, французький, Ffrengig, isiFulentshi, for French; Duits, Duitser, Duitse taal, Germaan, gjerman, ضرب من الرقص, جرماني, المانية, الماني, اللغة الألمانية, роден, германски, немски език, немски, немец, готически, германец, 德語 , 德语, 德文 , 德國 , nìmecký, nìmec, tysker, Duitse, týskur, týskt, týskari, saksalainen, Allemand, Dútsk, Deutsche, Deutsch, "ερμανός, gjermanisht, 'רמ י, 'רמ ית, német, þjóðverji, þýskur, GearmÚnach, GearmÚinis, tedesco, ジプシー音楽 , ジャーマン , 독일, todesch, Germaanagh, Garmane, Germaanish, Carmane, aleman, Niemiec, niemiecki, alemão, alemand, neamţ, немецкий, Siamani, germanski, alemán, Tudesku, Doysri, mjeremani, mdachi, sí-Jalimáne, tysk, เยอรมัน, าษาเยอรมัน, Alman, німкеня, німецький, німець, $sisters german$ chị em ruột, $cousin german$ anh chị em con chú bác ruột, sister, Almaenwr, isiJalimane, iliJalimane, iJalimane, for German; Grieks, Griek, الإغريقي, يوناني, اللغة اليونانية, Griegu, гръцки език, гръцки, грък, Griyego, 希臘語 , 希腊语, řecký, řeètina, řek, græker, grikst, kreikkalainen, grec, Gryk, Gryksk, Gryks, grieche, ελληνικόσ, 'Ελληνας, יו ית, יו י, görög, Grikki, greco, ギリシア語 , ギリシア", 그리스, Greagish, Greagagh, grego, grèc, greacã, греческий, Eleni, grk, grčki jezik, grčki, griego, grek, Yunanli, yunanlı, yunanca, yunan, Rumca, yunanistan'a ait, rum, грек, гречанка, грецька мова, грецький, kẻ cắp b gi gặp nhau, quân bạc bịp tôi không thể hiểu được điều đó thật l kỳ phùng địch thủ, người Hy-lạp tiếng Hy-lạp kẻ bịp bợm, kẻ lừa đảo, Groegwr, for Greek; Hongaars, Hongaar, hungarez, الهنغاري, مجري, هنغاري, المجري, اللغة الهنغارية, Húngaru, унгарски език, унгарски, унгарец, Hungaryan, 匈牙利語 , 匈牙利语, maïarský, maïar, maïarština, ungarer, Hongaarse, ungarskt, unkarilainen, hongrois, Hongaarsk, ungar, Ούγγρος, "ו 'רי, magyar, ungherese, 헝가리, Ungaarish, Ungaaragh, Węgier, ongrés, ungureşte, ungur, limba maghiarã, unguresc, maghiar, limba ungarã, венгр, венгерский, mađarski, mađar, mađarski jezik, húngaro, ungrare, ชาวฮังการี, macarca, macar, угорська мова, угорка, угорський, угорець, người Hung-ga-ri tiếng Hung-ga-ri, for Hungarian; Italianer, Italiaans, Italiaan, شخص إيطالي, اللغة الإيطالية, الإيطالي, إيطالي, Italianu, италиански език, италиански, италианец, Italyano, 意大利 , 意大利語 , 意大利语, italština, italský, ital, italiener, italienskt, italialainen, Italien, Italjaansk, italienisch, Ιταλός, italisht, איטלקי, איטלקית, olasz, Ítali, IodÚilis, italiano, 이탈리아, Iddaalish, Włoch, italianã, italienesc, italieneşte, italian, итальянский язык, итальянский, итальянец, Italia, italijanski, italijanski jezik, italijan, sí-Taliyáne, italienare, italiensk, italienska, เกี่ยวกับอิตาลี, ชาวอิตาลี, าษาอิตาลี, italyanca, italyan, італі"ць, італійська мова, італійський, італійка, for Italian; gjuha e popullsisë së ishullit men, manský, manština, manx, mann-szigeti nyelv, Gaelgagh, Yn Ghaelg, Manninish, Manninagh, язык жителей о-ва мэн, с о-ва мэн, s ostrva mana, los habitantes de la isla de man, lengua de la isla de man, de la isla de man, från ön man, man dili, man adası, менський діалект, менський, for manx; Portugees, portugez, portugalisht, اللغة البرتغالية, البرتغالية, البرتغالي, португалски език, португалски, португалец, Potuges, 葡萄牙语, 葡萄牙人 , 葡萄牙語 , portugalský, portugiser, portugisiskt, portugalilainen, portugais, Portugeesk, portugiesisch, πορτογάλοσ, ορτογάλος, portugál, Portaingéilis, portoghese, ポルトガル語 , ポルトガル", 포르투갈, Portiugish, Portiugagh, portugues, Portugalczyk, português, portughez, португальский, portugalski jezik, portugalski, portugalac, portugués, Mreno, si-Putúkezi, portugis, portekiz, Portekízlí, portekizli, portekizce, португальська мова, португальський, португалець, người B"-đ o-nha tiếng B"-đ o-nha, for Portuguese; Spaans, Spaanse taal, spanjoll, اللغة الأسبانية, الأسبانية, أسباني, испански език, испански, espanyoles, Espanyol, 西班牙语, 西班牙文 , 西班牙語 , španìlský, španìlština, spanskt, espanjalainen, espagnol, Spaansk, spanisch, ισπανικά, ισπανικόσ, ισπανοί, karaiñe'êmegua, ספר"ית, ספר"י, spanyol, SpÚinnis, spagnolo, スペイン語 , スパイ罪 , スペイン", スパニッシュ , 스페인, Spaainagh, Spaainish, spañó, espanhol, espanhòl, spaniolesc, spanioleşte, spaniol, испанский, Sipaniolo, španski jezik, španski, español, spanska språk, spansk, ispanyollar, ispanyolca, ispanyol, іспанська мова, іспанський, for Spanish; Sweeds, suedez, اللغة السويدية, Suecu, шведски език, шведски, швед, Swedis, 瑞典語 , 瑞典语, švédský, švédština, Zweeds, svenskt, ruotsalainen, suédois, Sweedsk, schwedisch, σουηδικόσ, σουηδικά, svéd, sænskur, Sualainnis, svedese, スウェーデン語 , スウェーデン", 스웨덴, Soolynish, Soolynagh, suèc, шведский, švedski jezik, švedski, sueco, svensk, เกี่ยวกับคน าษาและวั'นธรรมของประเทศสวีเ"น, isveççe, isveç dili, isveç, Ísveçlí, шведська мова, шведський, người Thuỵ điển tiếng Thuỵ điển, for Swedish; Turks, turk, تركي أحد أبناء تركيا, اللغة التركية, Turcu, турски, турски език, Turko, 土耳其, 土耳其語 , tureètina, turecký, turkist, turkkilainen, turque, turc, Turksk, türkisch, τούρκικοσ, טורקי, török, Yn Turkish, Turkagh, turcesc, турецкий, turski jezik, turski, turco, turkisk, türk, türkçe, турецька мова, турецький, tiếng Thổ nhĩ kỳ, for Turkish; |
