incubation period
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- noun
- /ˌɪŋkjʊˈbeɪʃən ˈpɪərɪəd/
- Specialized
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período de incubación
- The incubation period for this disease can last from a few days to several weeks.
- median incubation period
- short incubation period
- long incubation period
And most dangerous of all, Sean, there's a two week incubation period in which the virus can spread.
- And most dangerous of all, Sean, there's a two week incubation period in which the virus can spread.
- And this loneliness is an incubation period for psychological ailments.
Examples
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At the most, we're talking a 24-hour incubation period.
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The incubation period is approximately 2 to 4 weeks. C. gattii primarily affects persons with HIV infection.
Academic text (2013) -
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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Once inside the human body, it has an incubation period that can last from two days to a few weeks.
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If contacts are quarantined until beyond the incubation period, this will also limit further transmission.
Academic text (2015) -
Median incubation period for case-patients with known exposure was 8 days.
Academic text (2015) -
Among these 9 patients, the median incubation period was 6 (range 3-9) days.
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Based on 10 cases with a single known exposure time, the mean incubation period was 49 hours (range 32-63 hours).
Academic text (1993)
Synonyms
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The time between catching an infection and the first signs of illness
The time between something happening and when its effects appear
How Advanced
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- Specialized
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- Specialized
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- Specialized
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase literally combines 'incubation' (a developmental or biological nurturing phase) with 'period' (a measured interval), so a learner who knows both words can infer a general sense of a time when something develops. However, its specific use for products, technologies, ideas or startups is a metaphorical extension of the biological sense and may require domain knowledge or exposure, so the relation is only partially predictable.
Etymology
The phrase incubation period comes from the image of a bird sitting on eggs to keep them warm until they hatch, so the life inside grows quietly out of sight. So, for disease, the word incubation means the hidden time after you are infected 'before symptoms appear'.