incubation
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- noun
- /ˌɪŋkjʊˈbeɪʃən/
- Specialized
- Giardiasis and cryptosporidiosis both have long incubation periods (one to 12 days and three to 25 days, respectively).
- incubation period
- incubation period for giardiasis
- incubation period for influenza
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Watch on YouTubeAnd this loneliness is an incubation period for psychological ailments.
- And this loneliness is an incubation period for psychological ailments.
- And most dangerous of all, Sean, there's a two week incubation period in which the virus can spread.
- So this acceleration of the number of infected people with time is best attributed to incubation.
Examples
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After an infective bite, there's an incubation period, usually of one to six days, and then the classic symptoms appear.
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Among these 9 patients, the median incubation period was 6 (range 3-9) days.
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SAM: Do you know the incubation period?
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What is the incubation period?
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The incubation period is less than that.
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The incubation period appears to be two hours.
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Once inside the human body, it has an incubation period that can last from two days to a few weeks.
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Well, the period of incubation of this disease is very brief, maybe six to eight hours at the most.
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After a brief incubation period... victims present with stage one symptoms.
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The incubation period for the virus usually lasts between five to seven days before symptoms appear.
Synonyms
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Time between becoming infected and showing symptoms
Compounds
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A time when people develop a new product or idea before public release
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Etymology
Incubation comes from the Latin incubare, made of in- 'on' and cubare 'to lie down'. So, in illness the incubation period is the time a germ 'lies' in the body quietly before symptoms appear.