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biliblanket

biliblanket noun: any of various light-emitting blankets that are used for home treatment of jaundice in infants.

biliblanket: any of various light-emitting blankets that are used for home treatment of jaundice in infants
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Noun

biliblanket (plural biliblankets)

  1. Any of various light-emitting blankets that are used for home treatment of jaundice in infants.
    • The advantage to the biliblanket is that the infant's eyes do not need to be covered as long as the biliblanket is shielded and continuous phototherapy is provided even when holding or feeding the infant.1997, Wendy L. Votroubek, Julie Townsend, Pediatric Home Care, →ISBN, page 281
    • Biliblankets are used as another way of giving a jaundiced baby phototherapy treatment.2003, Nikki Bradford, Your Premature Baby: The First Five Years, →ISBN, page 28

Forms of biliblanket

pluralbiliblankets

Origin of biliblanket

Blend of bilirubin + blanket, originally a brand name, BiliBlanket, trademarked by General Electric's Datex Ohmeda subsidiary, coined in the early 1990s.

Questions about biliblanket

What does biliblanket mean?
Biliblanket means any of various light-emitting blankets that are used for home treatment of jaundice in infants.
What part of speech is biliblanket?
Biliblanket is a noun.
What is the plural of biliblanket?
The plural of biliblanket is biliblankets.

Words near biliblanket in the dictionary

  1. biliary tract
  2. biliary tracts
  3. biliation
  4. Bilibigao
  5. bilibinskite
  6. biliblanket
  7. biliblankets
  8. Biliboy
  9. bilic
  10. Bilicenii Noi
  11. bilichrome

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