Incubation

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The act of incubating.
  • n. The state of being incubated.
  • n. Medicine The development of an infection from the time the pathogen enters the body until signs or symptoms first appear.
  • n. Medicine The maintenance of an infant, especially a premature infant, in an environment of controlled temperature, humidity, and oxygen concentration in order to provide optimal conditions for growth and development.
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  • n. Sitting on eggs for the purpose of hatching young; a brooding on, or keeping warm, to develop the life within, by any process.
  • n. The development of a disease from its causes, or its period of incubation. (See below.)
  • n. A period of little reaction which is followed by more rapid reaction.
  • n. Sleeping in a temple or other holy place in order to have oracular dreams.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. 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.
  • n. The development of a disease from its causes, or its period of incubation. (See below.)
  • n. A sleeping in a consecrated place for the purpose of dreaming oracular dreams.
  • n. The maintenance (of a living organism, such as microorganisms or a premature baby) in appropriate conditions, such as of temperature, humidity, or atmospheric composition, for growth.
  • n. The gradual development in some interior environment, until fully formed.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The act of sitting, as on eggs, for the purpose of hatching; brooding; hatching: often used figuratively, as of writings, schemes, etc.
  • n. In pathology, the unnoticed or unknown processes or changes which occur in the interval between the exposure to an infectious disease and the development of its first symptoms.
  • n. A lying in or within; specifically, the act of sleeping in a temple for the purpose of obtaining revelations by dreams, or in the hope of being visited by the god and relieved of some ailment, as in the Greek sanctuaries of Æsculapius.
  • n. In pathology, the period that elapses between the introduction of the morbific principle and the outbreak of the disease.
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  • 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
  • n. maintaining something at the most favorable temperature for its development
    • Equivalent
    stage of incubation   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    giving birth    birth    parturition    birthing    stage   
    Cross Reference
    artificial incubation    period of incubation   
    Form
    incubation period   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Alsatian    Americanization    Appalachian    Balkanization    Christianization   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    insemination    postexposure    lambing    recuperation    protozoa   
     
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