intensive care unit. intensive care unit a department in a hospital that gives special attention and treatment to people who are very sick or badly injured
Intensive Care Unit The ward in the hospital where very ill patients are monitored very closely Typically, the patient-staff ratio is very low and the life-saving equipment used is very advanced
Instrument Control Unit, a part of the distributed command and control function implemented on ESA spacecraft The unit receives, decodes and executes high-level commands for its instrument, and autonomously performs health-checking and parameter monitoring In the event of anomalies it takes autonomous recovery actions