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NICU

Definition: NICU

NICU

Noun

1. 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".

"NICU" is a common misspelling or typo for: incur, nice, nick, niece.

 

Abbreviations & Acronyms: NICU

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

NICU

EnglishNeonatal Intensive Care UnitN/A

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

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Synonym: NICU

Synonym: neonatal intensive care unit (n). (additional references)
Synonym by domain: Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (medicine).

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Crosswords: NICU

Non-English Usage: "NICU" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

Romanian (Nicu).

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Modern Usage: NICU

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Treci zubi ne nicu (1966)

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

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Non-Fiction Usage: NICU

SubjectTopicQuote

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.

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Usage Frequency: NICU

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (proper)100%2078,262

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

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Derived & Related Names: NICU

"NICU" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a victory of the people".
 
The following table summarizes names related to "NICU."
NameGenderLanguageRelated Name
NicholasMaleEnglishN/A
NicholasMaleFrenchN/A
NicolaeMaleRomanianNicholas
NicuMaleRomanianNicolae
NicusorMaleRomanianNicolae
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: NICU

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

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.

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Modern Translations: NICU

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

Romanian

  

nicu. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: NICU

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).

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Anagrams: NICU

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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.

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

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Alternative Orthography: NICU


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

4E 49 43 55

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

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

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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)

01001110 01001001 01000011 01010101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#78 &#73 &#67 &#85

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004E 0049 0043 0055

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

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

48433755

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INDEX

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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