Isolette

American  

[ahy-suh-let] / ˌaɪ səˈlɛt /

Trademark.

1. a brand of incubator for premature or other newborn infants, providing controlled temperature, humidity, and oxygen levels and having armholes through which the infant can be reached with minimum disturbance to the controlled environment.

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Example Sentences

She reached into the Isolette and held Patrick’s hand for about 10 minutes — the last time she would see him alive.

From New York Times • Jul. 29, 2013

Then, like a human preemie, it was placed in an Isolette, a protective plastic box that guards against infection, borrowed from the pediatric ward of a nearby hospital.

From Time Magazine Archive

With its main door open, the chamber was at normal atmospheric pressure when a nurse picked up Baby Patrick and carried him inside, still in his Isolette.

From Time Magazine Archive

In Patrick Kennedy's case, Pediatrician James Drorbaugh saw enough alarming signs to order him rushed, in an Isolette, to Children's Hospital Medical Center in Boston.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the year 1845, he published his further survey of about an equal portion extending to Cape Isolette, in long.

From The Progress of Ethnology An Account of Recent Archaeological, Philological and Geographical Researches in Various Parts of the Globe by Bartlett, John Russell