
1) Attention 2) Care 3) Development period 4) Tending 5) The state of being incubated
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[psychology] Incubation is one of the 4 proposed stages of creativity: preparation, incubation, illumination, and verification. Incubation is defined as a process of unconscious recombination of thought elements that were stimulated through conscious work at one point in time, resulting in novel ideas at some later point in time. incubation...
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[ritual] Incubation is the religious practice of sleeping in a sacred area with the intention of experiencing a divinely inspired dream or cure. Incubation was practised by many ancient cultures. In perhaps the most well known instance among the Hebrews, found in 1 Kings 3, Solomon went to Gibeon `because that was the most renowned high pla...
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• (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.Incubation: ...
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(L. incubatio) the development of an infectious disease from the entrance of the pathogen to the appearance of clinical symptoms.
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(from the article `oracle`) ...casting of lots or the rustling of tree leaves, or more sophisticated, taking the form of a direct inquiry of an inspired person who then gave the ... ...were combined with other means of prophecy (such as animal sacrifice) and with efforts to heal the sick. In classical Greece, dreams became ... ...of ...
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(from the article `plant disease`) ...of wounds, or natural openingse.g., stomates [microscopic pores in leaf surfaces], hydathodes [stomatelike openings that secrete water], or ...
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the maintenance of uniform conditions of temperature and humidity to ensure the development of eggs or, under laboratory conditions, of certain ... [18 related articles]
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Caring for eggs under conditions favorable for development.
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the growth of a pathogen so that it can enter a host.
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<microbiology> The development of an infectious disease from the entrance of the pathogen to the appearance of clinical symptoms. ... Origin: L. Incubatio ... (13 Nov 1997) ...
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(in″ku-ba´shәn) the provision of proper conditions for growth and development, as for bacterial or tissue cultures. the development of an infectious disease from entrance of the pathogen to appearance of clinical symptoms. the development of the embryo in the egg of oviparous animals.&n...
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The period of time from egg fertilization until hatching.
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The period of time from when the eggs are laid to when they hatch. Generally, smaller birds have shorter incubation times, larger birds have larger incubation times.
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Of a pathogen, its development, growth, and penetration of a plant prior to infection; or its activity within plant tissues subsequent to penetration and up to appearance of symptoms, signs of disease or both.
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In`cu·ba'tion noun [ Latin
incubatio : confer French
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. (Medicine) The development of a disease fro...
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the period of time from egg fertilization until hatching
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Incubation is the mode in which birds commonly bring forth their young, that of sitting on the eggs till they are hatched by the natural heat of the body. In general it is the female which undergoes the labour of incubation, but among some species, chiefly of monogamous birds, the male relieves the female while she seeks her nourishment; in others ...
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It is the act of providing proper physical conditions for the development of the young ones of certain organisms. Commonly it is the hatching of eggs by means of heat natural or artificial.
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incubation 1. The act or process of incubating. 2. The state of being incubated. 3. In medicine, the development of an infection from the time the pathogen enters the body until signs or symptoms first appear. 4. The maintenance of an infant, especially a premature infant, in an environment of controlled temperature, humidity, and oxygen concent...
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the act of warming eggs in order to hatch them, as by a bird sitting upon a clutch of eggs in a nest
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Is the lying or resting on eggs, which generates heat, causing the eggs to hatch.
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noun maintaining something at the most favorable temperature for its development
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the act or process of incubating. · the state of being incubated. · See
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(pathology) the phase in the development of an infection between the
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