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Place for a preemie
Answer for the clue "Place for a preemie ", 9 letters:
incubator
Alternative clues for the word incubator
- Apparatus consisting of a box designed to maintain a constant temperature by the use of a thermostat
- In Caribbean island rocky peak is where birds are hatched
- It can help one get a start in life
- Used for chicks or premature infants
- Where Guantanamo's endlessly wrong - it holds a baby
- Warming device, unit with cobra snakes
- Device to keep the clutch from failing
Word definitions for incubator in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. apparatus consisting of a box designed to maintain a constant temperature by the use of a thermostat; used for chicks or premature infants [syn: brooder ]
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ D., you may be in that inorganic incubator until you are forty-five. ▪ He was in the next incubator at Guy's hospital to first victim Dean Bunn. ▪ One city planner said Escondido has become known as an incubator city. ▪ Seeing ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Incubator \In"cu*ba`tor\, n. That which incubates, especially, an apparatus by means of which eggs are hatched by artificial heat. An apparatus containing an enclosed chamber, used for the cultivation of micro["o]rganisms or tissue cultures by maintaining ...
Usage examples of incubator.
Jergens smiled, but somewhat uneasily, as a herpetologist does when he puts his hands into an incubator and finds that the rattlesnakes have come out of their eggs sooner than he bad expected.
Corinne savored the feel of his mouth for a moment, then bent to put little Jennifer in the incubator.
For every northern cow, on whom he stuck his regiments of incubator ticks, came down with Texas fever.
Why, First Sergeant Tacitus, over in Kilo Company, he caught one of his corporals, brought back a clutch of raptor eggs from Wanderjahr and was hatching them in a homemade incubator behind his wall locker!
As long as the women stayed healthy and drug-free, and agreed to be monitored on a daily basis, they were good enough to serve as human incubators for the vastly superior beings gestating within them.
They were surrounded by other incubators, with other little sick babies.
Periodically it flew northward to meet floatwood islands coming along the Meral, sought out the incubators installed on them, left one of its leathery eggs in a seed pod on each, finally returned to its cold skies.
She wondered if Graham was feeling that also--wondered if he was looking out at those babies in their incubators and thinking that some woman had managed to carry and bear each one.
The infant is apparently now in a South Shore hospital incubator, attached to machines and tapering off the Clonidine285 it received for in-utero addictions to substances Kate Gompert can only speculate about.
He was a complete surprise and terribly premature, and withered, and he spent the next many weeks waggling his withered and contractured arms up at the Pyrex ceilings of incubators, being fed by tubes and monitored by wires and cupped in sterile palms, his head cradled by a thumb.
What a beautiful baby she was, Babygirl the loving parents called her, conceived in the heat of the most tender yet the most erotic love, fated to be smothered with love, devoured with love, an Amer-ican Babygirl placed with reverent fingers in her incubator.
In her incubator air, humid and warm as a tropical rain forest, Babygirl thrived, glowed, prospered, grew.
One mild April day, when a winey-red trail of clotted blood was detected in the incubator, issuing from between Babygirl's plump thighs, we were all quite astonished and disapproving, but what's to be done?
She had oohed and ahhed over a generous assortment of electron microscopes, incubators, radiation counters, test tubes, petri dishes, titration setups, gas chromatography equipment, MRI scanners, and other apparatus she couldn’.
So the festival city's body shop goes to work turning out hacked stem cells and fabbing up incubators.