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incubation

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WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. maintaining something at the most favorable temperature for its development (pathology) the phase in the development of an infection between the time a pathogen enters the body and the time the first symptoms appear sitting on eggs so as to hatch them ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1610s, "brooding," from Latin incubationem (nominative incubatio ) "a laying upon eggs," noun of action from past participle stem of incubare "to hatch," literally "to lie on, rest on," from in- "on" (see in- (2)) + cubare "to lie" (see cubicle ). The literal ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Incubation \In`cu*ba"tion\, n. [L. incubatio: cf. F. incubation.] 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. (Med.) The development of a disease from its ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Incubation is one of the four proposed stages of creativity , which are preparation, incubation, illumination, and verification. Incubation is defined as a process of unconscious recombination of thought elements that were stimulated through conscious work ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 Sitting on eggs for the purpose of hatching young; a brooding on, or keeping warm, to develop the life within, by any process. 2 (context pathology English) The development of a disease from its causes, or its period of incubation. (See below.) 3 (context ...

Usage examples of incubation.

Each adult Martian female brings forth about thirteen eggs each year, and those which meet the size, weight, and specific gravity tests are hidden in the recesses of some subterranean vault where the temperature is too low for incubation.

By then your father had been pipetted out and installed in an incubation tank.

When these food animals have the germ of trypanosomiasis, or sleeping-sickness, it picks it up and develops acute infectivity after an incubation period of thirty-one days.

Everybody who has observed the working of emotions in persons of various temperaments knows well enough that they have periods of incubation, which differ with the individual, and with the particular cause and degree of excitement, yet evidently go through a strictly self-limited series of evolutions, at the end of which, their result --an act of violence, a paroxysm of tears, a gradual subsidence into repose, or whatever it may be--declares itself, like the last stage of an attack of fever and ague.

Much of the incubation period is spent just amplifying those initial few particles into a large enough population of viruses to do their dirty work.

It has its name and its colour from the dung of innumerable sea-fowls, which in the Spring chuse this place as convenient for incubation, and have their eggs and their young taken in great abundance.

The incubation period of Bacillus anthracis is, as I recall, two to three days.

Does it not arise from the difficulty of several females associating together, and finding a male ready to undertake the office of incubation?

He asserts that four or five hens associate for incubation with one cock, who sits only at night.

In the incubation shed, Bares, looking down at Taphris, held the half-gourd cup.

Najarian noted that the disease has an incubation period of twenty-five to thirty years[118]--a time span precisely corresponding to the experiences of Nagasaki cleanup Marines Coppola, Ralph, Lasky, Bonebrake, and Proctor.

The exotoxin from this particular anaerobe was quite as deadly as I had said but, fortunately, Otto had been unaware that the incubation period was seldom less than four hours and, in extreme cases, had been known to be as long as forty-eight-not that the period of incubation delay made the final results any less fatal.

Reed estimated that the incubation and infection period would now be measured in minutes.

A drop of it, one drop administered to the food or drink Lucio Salazar was renowned for consuming with boundless passion, and the Sleeper inside him would begin its ferocious process of incubation.

Coming from eggs in which they have lain for five years, the period of incubation, they step forth into the world perfectly developed except in size.