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Incubator
An enclosed, heated, plastic bassinette used to provide warmth and, sometimes humidity, for prematurely born infants. Incubators are sometimes called isolettes. They are used in the care of premature infants to give them a controlled thermal environment to reduce the infant's heat and water loss.
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Date Last Modified: 08/27/2003 07:14