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Definition: NICU |
NICUNoun1. An intensive care unit designed with special equipment to care for premature or low-birth-weight or seriously ill newborn. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
"NICU" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a victory of the people". |
| 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 |
NICU | English | Neonatal Intensive Care Unit | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonym: NICUSynonym: neonatal intensive care unit (n). (additional references) |
| Synonym by domain: Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (medicine). |
Crosswords: NICU |
| Non-English Usage: "NICU" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Romanian (Nicu). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Treci zubi ne nicu (1966) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Thus, they should be screened using the same protocol and followup vigilance as the NICU population. (references) | |
An infant with BPD may spend several weeks or months in the NICU. This is a stressful period for the parents and the family. (references) | ||
In the NICU setting, for every child with significant hearing impairment who is detected, approximately six babies are referred for followup. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "NICU" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "NICU" is used about 20 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 (proper) | 100% | 20 | 78,262 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| "NICU" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a victory of the people". | |||
| The following table summarizes names related to "NICU." | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Related Name |
| Nicholas | Male | English | N/A |
| Nicholas | Male | French | N/A |
| Nicolae | Male | Romanian | Nicholas |
| Nicu | Male | Romanian | Nicolae |
| Nicusor | Male | Romanian | Nicolae |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
nicu | 79 |
nicu nurse | 9 |
nicu nursing | 7 |
nicu baby | 6 |
nicu web | 4 |
nicu picture | 4 |
3 level nicu | 3 |
missouri nicu | 3 |
kansas nicu | 3 |
ink nicu | 3 |
nicu noise | 3 |
canada cost health hospital in nicu | 3 |
alifantis nicu | 3 |
net nicu | 2 |
nicu sales.com | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "NICU"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Romanian | nicu. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words containing "NICU": canicular, doronicum, doronicums, funicular, funiculars, funiculi, funiculus, geniculate, geniculated, manicure, manicured, manicures, manicuring, manicurist, manicurists, paniculate, panicum, panicums, viniculture, vinicultures. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: unci. | |
| Words within the letters "c-i-n-u" | |
-2 letters: in, nu, un. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-i-n-u" | |
+1 letter: cuing, cumin, cutin, incur, incus, mucin, runic, tunic, uncia. | |
+2 letters: acinus, anuric, brucin, cinque, cluing, conium, cousin, crinum, cubing, cueing, cumins, cummin, curing, cutins, fundic, fungic, incubi, incult, incurs, incuse, induce, induct, leucin, mucins, muonic, neumic, nuclei, nuncio, quince, quinic, tunica, tunics, unchic, unciae, uncial, uncini, unclip, uncoil, unific, unpick, uranic, urchin, vicuna. | |
+3 letters: acinous, auction, auxinic, brucine, brucins, bubonic, bucking, cauline, causing, caution, chuting, cingula, cinques, clueing, coenuri, conduit, congius, coniums, coquina, council, couping, cousins, cranium, crinums, crucian, cuffing, cuisine, culling, cullion, culming, cumarin, cummins, cunning, cupping, curbing, curding, curling, curring, cursing, curtain, curving, cushion, cussing, cutline, cutting, deucing, ducking, duckpin, ducting, duncish, dunitic, echinus, educing, eucaine, eugenic, eupneic, fuchsin, fucking, funicle, include, inconnu, incrust, incubus, incudal, incudes, incurve, incused, incuses, induced, inducer, induces, inducts, inocula, insculp, iracund, juicing, kingcup, leucine, leucins, linecut, linocut, lucking, lunatic, mucking, noctuid, nucelli, nuclein, nuclide, nudnick, numeric, nuncios, nutpick, ouching, panicum, penuchi, puranic, quantic, quicken, quinces, quintic, reincur, ricinus, ruching, rucking, ruction, saucing, sculpin, squinch, sucking, suction, trucing, tucking, tunicae, tunicle, umbonic, unchain, uncials, uncinal, uncinus, uncivil, unclips, uncoils, uncomic, unction, unhitch, unicorn, uniface, unpicks, unstick, unvoice, urchins, vicugna, vicunas, vincula, yucking, zincous. | |
+4 letters: abducing, acauline, accruing, accusing, aconitum, acquaint, actinium, adducing, aluminic, anchusin, anticult, anuretic, auctions, audience, baculine, banausic, bouncier, bouncily, bouncing, brucines, buckling, buckskin, bunchier, bunchily, bunching, buncoing, calquing, capuchin, caulking, cautions, ceinture, chipmunk, chousing, chucking, chuffing, chugging, chumming, chumping, chunkier, chunkily, chunking, churning, churring, cincture, cingulum, cinquain, cislunar, cliquing, clouding, clouring, clouting, clubbing, clucking, clumping, clunkier, clunking, coinsure, conduits, conidium, conquian, continua, continue, continuo, coquinas, cothurni, couching, coughing, coumarin, councils, countian, counties, counting, coupling, coursing, courting, cousinly, cousinry, craniums, crucians, crudding, cruising, crumbing, crumping, crushing, crusting, cuddling, cufflink, cuisines, culicine, culinary, cullions, cullying, cultigen, culverin, cumarins, cuneatic, cuniform, cunnings, cupeling, cuppings, curarine, curating, curbings, curdling, curlings, currying, curtains, cushions, cushiony, cutinise, cutinize, cutlines, cuttings, cuttling, decurion, deducing, discount, disjunct, douching, duckling, duckpins, ductings, dulciana, dulcinea, duncical, ecumenic, eduction, encomium, enuretic, eructing, eucaines, euchring, eugenics, euphenic, euphonic, eupnoeic, excusing, fanciful, focusing, francium, fuchsine, fuchsins, fulminic, function, funicles, funiculi, glucinic, glucinum, guidance, gynecium, hocusing, hunching, hutching, icebound, incisure, included, includes, inconnus, incrusts, incubate, incudate, incumber, incurred, incurved, incurves, incusing, indicium, inducers, inducing, inducted, inductee, inductor, infecund, inoculum, insculps, insecure, insomuch, instruct, intercut, issuance, jauncing, jaundice, jouncier, jouncing, junction, kingcups, leucines, linecuts, linocuts, locution, lunacies, lunatics, lunching, lurching, maculing, manicure, meconium, meniscus, miscount, miscuing, mouching, mucinoid, mucinous, mulching, mulcting, munchies, munching, munchkin, muscling, musician, mutchkin, nautical, neumatic, neuritic, neuronic, neurotic, noctuids, noctuoid, nonmusic, nucleins, nucleoid, nucleoli, nuclides, nuclidic, nudicaul, nudnicks, nuisance, numerics, nutpicks, oncidium, panicums, penuchis, picayune, pinchbug, piquance, piquancy, plucking, plutonic, pouching, pouncing, publican, pulicene, pulmonic, pumicing, punchier, punchily, punching, punditic, quacking, quantics, quercine, quickens, quidnunc, quincunx, quintics, recusing, reducing, reincurs, reinduce, reinduct, rescuing, rubicund, ruchings, ruckling, ructions, ruthenic, scandium, sciurine, scouring, scouting, scrutiny, scudding, scuffing, sculking, sculling, scullion, sculping, sculpins, scumming, securing, seducing, shucking, sinciput, sinecure, sluicing, sourcing, sprucing, subniche, subsonic, subtonic, subtunic, succinct, succinic, succinyl, suckling, suctions, sulfonic, sultanic, syconium, taciturn, tincture, touching, trucking, tsunamic, tungstic, tunicate, tunicles, ulcering, uncaging, uncaking, uncandid, uncaring, uncasing, unchains, unchicly, uncially, unciform, uncinate, unclinch, uncoffin, uncoiled, uncoined, unctions, undocile, unerotic, unexotic, unheroic, unicolor, unicorns, unicycle, unifaces, univocal, unlacing, unlicked, unpicked, unpoetic, unpriced, unsicker, unsliced, unsocial, unsticks, unstitch, unvoiced, unvoices, upcoming, uranitic, uranylic, urinemic, urticant, vicugnas, vinculum, viscount, vouching, vulcanic, zucchini. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4E 49 43 55 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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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)01001110 01001001 01000011 01010101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)N I C U |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004E 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)48433755 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Quotations: Non-fiction 6. Usage Frequency 7. Names: Derived from 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Abbreviations 11. Acronyms 12. Derivations | 13. Anagrams 14. Orthography 15. Bibliography |
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