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Definition of Period of incubation

Period of incubation
Incubation 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.

Meaning of Period of incubation from wikipedia

- Incubation period (also known as the latent period or latency period) is the time elapsed between exposure to a pathogenic organism, a chemical, or radiation...
- distinguished: incubation period, pre-infectious or latent period and infectious period. Two other relevant and important time period concepts are generation...
- them Incubation (psychology), the process of thinking about a problem subconsciously while being involved in other activities Incubation period, medical...
- In psychology, incubation refers to the unconscious processing of problems, when they are set aside for a period of time, that may lead to insights. It...
- middle third of embryonic development. This critical period of incubation is known as the thermosensitive period. The specific time of ****-commitment...
- Egg incubation is the process by which an egg, of oviparous (egg-laying) animals, develops an embryo within the egg, after the egg's formation and ovipositional...
- different concentrations of antibiotics is placed on a growth medium, and the growth medium is viewed after a period of incubation. The minimum inhibitory...
- stages of its development only. In contrast, bird eggs contain enough to supply the chick with nutriment throughout the whole period of incubation. In the...
- infectiousness of a disease. If the infectious period starts before the onset of the symptoms of the disease (i.e. the end of the incubation period), then asymptomatic...
- during the period of incubation (development within the fly is known as the extrinsic incubation period), which requires extreme adaptation of the trypanosomes...