intensive care

noun

|Updated on: 18 Jun 2018

Examples: intensive care in a Sentence

Definition of intensive care

1 : continuous monitoring and treatment of seriously ill patients using special medical equipment and services

2 : a unit in a hospital providing intensive care

heart patients in intensive care

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Examples of intensive care in a Sentence

Her condition will require intensive care.

Recent Examples of intensive care from the Web

Yannis Papadatos, head of the intensive care unit at the Athens General Children’s Hospital, is similarly grateful.

— yannis palaiologos, The Christian Science Monitor, "Online matchmaker pairs donors with charities in Greece," 15 June 2018
The woman who was with the man in the 1974 fixed-wing, single-engine Cessna was in critical condition in intensive care at Harborview Medical Center.

— rachel lerman, The Seattle Times, "Search suspended near Bainbridge Island for man missing in plane crash," 28 May 2018
The 76-year-old, however, remains in intensive care at Salford Royal Hospital surrounded by close friends and family, where his road to full recovery is expected to be a slow process.

— SI.com, "Man Utd Legend Sir Alex Ferguson 'Awake & Talking' Following Brain Haemorrhage Coma," 8 May 2018
The former first lady died last month and a family spokesman told CNN days later the former President had been admitted to intensive care at the Houston hospital, but was awake and alert.

— eli watkins, CNN, "George H.W. Bush: Waiting for 'green light' to leave hospital," 3 May 2018
In a Facebook post on Sunday, Wilton resident Tiffany Halley said her teenage daughter Izabella Radovich had spent eight days in intensive care at a Kaiser Permanente hospital but was finally well enough to be transferred to a pediatric unit.

— molly sullivan and cathie anderson, sacbee, "Girl, 16, sickened as E. coli outbreak hits Sacramento region | The Sacramento Bee," 25 Apr. 2018
But a few branches re-sprout from the stump and get shipped off to intensive care at Kew.

— richard conniff, WSJ, "‘The Plant Messiah’ Review: The Miracle Worker," 13 Apr. 2018
Dijonae White, 14, died Sunday evening while in intensive care at a Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital in Memphis, Alan Gurley, the county coroner, told WCBI.

— matthew martinez, star-telegram, "His sister wouldn’t give up the video game controller, so the boy shot and killed her, police say | Fort Worth Star-Telegram," 20 Mar. 2018
Meanwhile, one student injured in the shooting was transferred to intensive care after his condition worsened.

— brendan farrington and gary fineout, chicagotribune.com, "Florida Gov. Rick Scott won't say whether he will sign gun bill on his desk," 8 Mar. 2018

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First Known Use of intensive care

1963

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INTENSIVE CARE Defined for English Language Learners

intensive care

noun

Definition of intensive care for English Language Learners

: a section of a hospital where special medical equipment and services are provided for patients who are seriously injured or ill; also : the medical care provided in such a section

INTENSIVE CARE Defined for Kids

intensive care

noun

Definition of intensive care for Students

: constant observation and treatment of very ill patients in a special unit of a hospital

Medical Dictionary

intensive care

adjective

medical Definition of intensive care

: having special medical facilities, services, and monitoring devices to meet the needs of gravely ill patients

an intensive care unit

— compare acute care, chronic care

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intensive care

noun

- She required intensive care and survived without sequelae.
- —The Journal of the American Medical Association, 4 July 1986
- He spent several days in intensive care before recovering from the overdose.
- —Jerome Groopman, The New Yorker, 10 Jan. 2005