Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

biliblanket

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: bili-blan-ket
IPA

19

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any of various light-emitting blankets that are used for home treatment of jaundice in infants.

Example Sentences

"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."
"Biliblankets are used as another way of giving a jaundiced baby phototherapy treatment."
"For more severe cases a biliblanket may be recommended. It's a special blanket that wraps around the baby and works like concentrated sunlight to break down the bilirubin."

Etymology

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

Inflected Forms

biliblankets (plural)

Questions

What does biliblanket mean?: Any of various light-emitting blankets that are used for home treatment of jaundice in infants.
Where does biliblanket come from?: Blend of bilirubin + blanket, originally a brand name, BiliBlanket, trademarked by General Electric's Datex Ohmeda subsidiary, coined in the early 1990s.

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