(n.) A wicker basket, with a covering or hood over one end, in which young children are placed as in a cradle.
(n.) See Bascinet.
Example Sentences:
(1) Data were collected using a sleep monitor bassinet for two consecutive nights after delivery.
(2) The level of carbon dioxide (CO2) "inhaled" is showed to be lower in nostril breathers, singletons and in bassinets and higher with mouth breathing models, in "twins", and in carry cots, especially if the model's head is accidentally covered.
(3) In the cases described, the security mechanisms were insufficient and the children were strangled between the handle and the bassinet.
(4) In 18 other cases, we discovered various possible causes of death other than SIDS, including accidental asphyxiation by an object in the crib or bassinet, smothering by overlying while sharing a bed, hyperthermia, and shaken baby syndrome.
(5) Sleep-awake state distribution during inter-feed intervals over a 24-hour period on the third day of life was investigated by means of a continuous non-intrusive bassinet sleep monitor.
(6) Control measures against Ornithonyssus bacoti, which were successful within a short time, included eradication of the rats, closing of the hole in the ceiling, acaricide application in the garret and intensive cleaning of the living-room, the baby's nursery table, pram and bassinet.
(7) We describe the neonatal course of 30 antenatal narcotic-exposed newborns, half of whom were randomly assigned to nonoscillating waterbeds and half to conventional bassinets.
(8) When the instrument was evaluated on ten infants in bassinets at room temperature and ten adults, alarm conditions were seen in nine of ten cases when one side of the probe was separated from the skin by a 1.0-mm gap.
(9) This study was performed to determine whether covering the eyes with an opaque screen over the head end of the bassinet instead of the normal patch would improve the behavioral organization of jaundiced, but otherwise healthy, term infants treated with phototherapy.
(10) An operational evaluation of the Bassinet Loan Scheme (BLS) was undertaken after 18 months of operation.
(11) Hours after our son was born, he was lying in a transparent NHS bassinet beside my wife's hospital bed, with Andrew Lansley's face looming at him from an LCD screen placed there to torment us.