INCUBATION
\ˌɪnkjuːbˈe͡ɪʃən], \ˌɪnkjuːbˈeɪʃən], \ˌɪ_n_k_j_uː_b_ˈeɪ_ʃ_ə_n]\
Definitions of INCUBATION
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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sitting on eggs so as to hatch them by the warmth of the body
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maintaining something at the most favorable temperature for its development
By Princeton University
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sitting on eggs so as to hatch them by the warmth of the body
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maintaining something at the most favorable temperature for its development
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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The development of a disease from its causes, or its period of incubation. (See below.)
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A sleeping in a consecrated place for the purpose of dreaming oracular dreams.
By Oddity Software
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The development of a disease from its causes, or its period of incubation. (See below.)
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A sleeping in a consecrated place for the purpose of dreaming oracular dreams.
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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1. The keeping of bacterial or protozoan cultures in an incubator to favor their development. 2. The maintenance of a premature or marantic infant in a couveuse. 3. The development of an infectious disease from the period of infection to that of the appearance of the first symptoms. 4. The passing of the night in a temple, church, shrine, etc, as a means of obtaining a cure of disease.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
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The act of sitting on eggs to hatch them: (med.) the period between the implanting of a disease and its development: the act of sleeping for oracular dreams. "This place was celebrated for the worship of Aesculapius, in whose temple incubation, i.e. sleeping for oracular dreams, was practiced."-E. B. Tylor.
By Daniel Lyons
By James Champlin Fernald
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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The act of sitting on eggs for the hatching of young; in med., the period during which a contagious disease lies latent before showing itself.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
By Henderson, I. F.; Henderson, W. D.
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This word, which is used in natural history for the sitting of birds upon their eggs, is employed, figuratively, in medicine, for the period that elapses between the introduction of a morbific principle into the animal economy and the invasion of the disease.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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The process of development of a fecundated ovum; usually the process by which birds hatch their eggs by applying to them the heat of their own body.
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The time from the moment of infection to the outbreak of the first symptoms of an infectious disease.
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The period of growth of bacteria under artificial cultivation. [Lat.]
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
