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Synonyms

ICU

American  

abbreviation

  1. intensive care unit.


ICU British  

abbreviation

  1. intensive care unit

  2. text messaging I see you

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Example Sentences

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I was rotating through a pediatric ICU in Baltimore.

From Slate • Mar. 29, 2026

The attending physicians and nurses in that ICU were seasoned.

From Slate • Mar. 29, 2026

The author argues that Bovino’s inflammatory rhetoric and theatrical enforcement style backfired, with his unsubstantiated claim that slain ICU nurse Alex Pretti wanted to “massacre law enforcement” particularly damaging public perception of immigration enforcement efforts.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 27, 2026

Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison is concerned the federal government may “withhold” information about the death of ICU nurse Alex Pretti.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 28, 2026

“I know that coming out of the ICU, it doesn’t feel this way, but this fluid is, at least for the time being, manageable.”

From "The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green