0 the part of a hospital that provides a high level of care and treatment for patients who are seriously ill or who have just had a major operation:
He was admitted to a high dependency unit in Johannesburg after suffering 18 hours of constant vomiting.
The lives of hundreds of people undergoing serious operations may be at risk because 40% of major hospitals have no high dependency unit.
We can now keep critically ill women in our obstetric high dependency unit, avoiding transfer to ITU.
