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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A trademark for a neonatal incubator.
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Examples
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Development at Children's Hospital of the Isolette®, the first incubator for newborns.
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Isolette: the word makes me cringe, even now—the prettified, French-sounding “ette” at the end of a word describing a plastic cage that isolated you from me.
Knowing Jesse Marianne Leone 2010
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Isolette: the word makes me cringe, even now—the prettified, French-sounding “ette” at the end of a word describing a plastic cage that isolated you from me.
Knowing Jesse Marianne Leone 2010
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I had heard that, in some cases, twins could better fight their medical issues if they were placed close to each other in the same Isolette, but this NICU did not allow it because all the machines, monitors and leads could potentially get tangled up.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Twins and More Jack Canfield 2009
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The sounds of the NICU assaulted my ears—the whir of the respirators, the “beep beep” of apnea monitors—until I was taken to an Isolette containing a little boy wearing many tubes and wires, a diaper, and an orange knit cap way too big for his head.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Twins and More Jack Canfield 2009
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The sounds of the NICU assaulted my ears—the whir of the respirators, the “beep beep” of apnea monitors—until I was taken to an Isolette containing a little boy wearing many tubes and wires, a diaper, and an orange knit cap way too big for his head.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Twins and More Jack Canfield 2009
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A few moments later, my husband and I were led to another Isolette across the room.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Twins and More Jack Canfield 2009
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I had heard that, in some cases, twins could better fight their medical issues if they were placed close to each other in the same Isolette, but this NICU did not allow it because all the machines, monitors and leads could potentially get tangled up.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Twins and More Jack Canfield 2009
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A few moments later, my husband and I were led to another Isolette across the room.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Twins and More Jack Canfield 2009
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Twelve class members and seven volunteers gathered together Feb. 28 and in three hours made close to 200 hand-made cards to be place on an ill baby's Isolette with his or her name in a effort to help ease the stress of the parents.
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