Meaning of INCUBATION
| Pronunciation: | | `inkyu'beyshun
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- [n] maintaining something at the most favorable temperature for its development
- [n] sitting on eggs so as to hatch them by the warmth of the body
- [n] (pathology) the phase in the development of an infection between the time a pathogen enters the body and the time the first symptoms appear
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| | Synonyms: | | brooding |
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| | See Also: | | aid, attention, birth, birthing, care, giving birth, infection, parturition, phase, stage, tending | |
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| | Definition: | | \In`cu*ba"tion\, n. [L. incubatio: cf. F.
incubation.]
1. A sitting on eggs for the purpose of hatching young; a
brooding on, or keeping warm, (eggs) to develop the life
within, by any process. --Ray.
2. (Med.) The development of a disease from its causes, or
its period of incubation. (See below.)
3. A sleeping in a consecrated place for the purpose of
dreaming oracular dreams. --Tylor.
{Period of incubation}, or {Stage of incubation} (Med.), the
period which elapses between exposure to the causes of a
disease and the attack resulting from it; the time of
development of the supposed germs or spores.
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| | Definition: | | The time between infection by a pathogen and the appearance of disease symptoms. |
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| | Definition: | | - The process of maintaining constant temperature, humidity, and other environmental factors for the purpose of allowing an embryo to develop properly within an egg, a prematurely-born infant to continue its development outside of its mother's womb, or microbe or tissue cultures to grow until they are a scientifically or medically useful size. When done artificially, incubation is done within an "incubator."
- The period between the initial infection of a host by a microbe and the time that symptoms begin.
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