isolator
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A person or room kept apart to stop disease spreading
- noun
- /ˈaɪsəˌleɪtər/
- Specialized
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unidad de aislamiento
- The nurse placed the patient in an isolator to prevent the spread of infection.
- medical isolator
Examples
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During the outbreak, each sick patient was put into an isolator for their safety and the safety of others.
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An isolator was set up in the laboratory to safely contain the infectious samples.
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You trained me with the first Airborne medical isolator team.
Fiction book (1993) -
With a feral cat on one side of the isolator, fresh paper, food, and water can be placed into the other side.
Blog text (17) -
Reese draws blood from the girl in the isolator.
Fiction book (1993) -
That tool is an isolator, and it is used to restrain a trapped feral cat for initial sedation before spay/neuter surgery.
Blog text (17)
Antonyms
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Morphology
Etymology
Isolator comes from the old Latin insula 'island', so it suggests a person or device kept like an island away from others to stop the spread of disease.