What is the incubation period?
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Incubation
//ɪnkjuːˈbeɪʃən//
Synonyms for "incubation" (7 found)
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43 translations across 23 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- ἐγκοίμησις noun (sleeping in a consecrated place for the purpose of dreaming oracular dreams)
Arabic
2 entries- تَفْرِيخ noun (sitting on eggs for the purpose of hatching young)
- حِضَانَة noun (sitting on eggs for the purpose of hatching young)
Assamese
1 entries- উমনি noun (sitting on eggs for the purpose of hatching young)
Bulgarian
1 entries- мътене noun (sitting on eggs for the purpose of hatching young)
Catalan
2 entries- covament noun (sitting on eggs for the purpose of hatching young)
- incubació noun (sitting on eggs for the purpose of hatching young)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 孵化 noun (sitting on eggs for the purpose of hatching young)
Finnish
2 entries- hautominen noun (sitting on eggs for the purpose of hatching young)
- itäminen noun (development of a disease from its causes, or its period of incubation)
French
1 entries- incubation noun (development of a disease from its causes, or its period of incubation)
Galician
1 entries- incubación noun (sitting on eggs for the purpose of hatching young)
German
2 entries- Bebrütung noun (sitting on eggs for the purpose of hatching young)
- Inkubation noun (development of a disease from its causes, or its period of incubation)
Greek
3 entries- εγκοίμηση noun (sleeping in a consecrated place for the purpose of dreaming oracular dreams)
- επώαση noun (sitting on eggs for the purpose of hatching young)
- επώαση noun (development of a disease from its causes, or its period of incubation)
Hungarian
4 entries- keltetés noun (sitting on eggs for the purpose of hatching young)
- kotlás noun (sitting on eggs for the purpose of hatching young)
- költés noun (sitting on eggs for the purpose of hatching young)
- lappangás noun (development of a disease from its causes, or its period of incubation)
Irish
1 entries- gor noun (sitting on eggs for the purpose of hatching young)
Italian
4 entries- cova noun (sitting on eggs for the purpose of hatching young)
- cova delle uova noun (sitting on eggs for the purpose of hatching young)
- covatura noun (sitting on eggs for the purpose of hatching young)
- incubazione noun (sitting on eggs for the purpose of hatching young)
Japanese
2 entries- インキュベーション noun (development of a disease from its causes, or its period of incubation)
- 孵化 noun (sitting on eggs for the purpose of hatching young)
Khiamniungan Naga
1 entries- vēupōk noun (sitting on eggs for the purpose of hatching young)
Korean
1 entries- 부화 noun (sitting on eggs for the purpose of hatching young)
Norwegian Bokmål
2 entries- inkubasjon noun (development of a disease from its causes, or its period of incubation)
- ruging noun (sitting on eggs for the purpose of hatching young)
Norwegian Nynorsk
2 entries- inkubasjon noun (development of a disease from its causes, or its period of incubation)
- ruging noun (sitting on eggs for the purpose of hatching young)
Portuguese
1 entries- incubação noun (development of a disease from its causes, or its period of incubation)
Romanian
1 entries- incubație noun (development of a disease from its causes, or its period of incubation)
Russian
3 entries- выси́живание noun (sitting on eggs for the purpose of hatching young)
- инкуба́ция noun (sitting on eggs for the purpose of hatching young)
- инкуба́ция noun (development of a disease from its causes, or its period of incubation)
Spanish
2 entries- incubación noun (sitting on eggs for the purpose of hatching young)
- incubación noun (development of a disease from its causes, or its period of incubation)
Sample sentences
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The incubation period can take up to two weeks.
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Both avian flus A and B have an incubation period of 21 days.
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1829, A Practical Synopsis of Cutaneous Diseases The course of small-pox, whether distinct or confluent, may be divided into five stages, which are known under the names of incubation, invasion, eruption, suppuration, and desiccation. This division, founded on the most prominent symptoms that the disease presents, although it is an arbitrary one, still affords a facility in the study. The period of incubation comprises the interval of time that elapses from the infection to the beginning of the attack; its duration is from six to twenty days. It is not designated by any visible symptom, as the individual apparently continues in good health.
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