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  • noun An incubator for a new-born baby.

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Examples

  • At times, just to approach an isolette is to risk being on the receiving end of an emphatic vocal reproach.

    Between Expectations Md Meghan Maclean Weir 2011

  • Missy and Charles felt it, their faces pressed against the clear walls of the isolette, their breath fogging the plastic that was in between.

    Between Expectations Md Meghan Maclean Weir 2011

  • They were born early and even shared an isolette in the hospital NICU.

    Vicky Ward: Enough With the Stupid Studies Vicky Ward 2011

  • Upstairs he will need lines inserted into the central artery and vein that are accessible in the remaining jelly of his umbilical cord, but for now he is loaded into an isolette and rolled with the ventilator to where his mother her abdomen still open and being repaired can reach an arm into the opening to rest over the soft curve of his head.

    Between Expectations Md Meghan Maclean Weir 2011

  • The isolette is doing it for him and his skin is too thin now to keep in the heat.

    Between Expectations Md Meghan Maclean Weir 2011

  • They were born early and even shared an isolette in the hospital NICU.

    Vicky Ward: Enough With the Stupid Studies Vicky Ward 2011

  • They were born early and even shared an isolette in the hospital NICU.

    Vicky Ward: Enough With the Stupid Studies Vicky Ward 2011

  • They were born early and even shared an isolette in the hospital NICU.

    Vicky Ward: Enough With the Stupid Studies Vicky Ward 2011

  • They were born early and even shared an isolette in the hospital NICU.

    Vicky Ward: Enough With the Stupid Studies Vicky Ward 2011

  • But I realize quickly that each of these things would be as misplaced here as an unplugged isolette stuffed with several small babies, an item that I do actually find in the nursery of the maternity hospital.

    Between Expectations Md Meghan Maclean Weir 2011

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