intensive care

Universal Words noun [U] 1 continuous care and attention, often using special equipment, for people in hospital who are very seriously ill or injured: She needed intensive care for several days. * intensive care patients / beds 2 (also intensive care unit [C]) (abbreviation ICU) the part of a hospital that provides intensive care: The baby was in intensive care for 48 hours. * She's still critically ill in intensive care. * He was taken in a coma to the intensive care unit of Glasgow Royal Infirmary.