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.
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