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incubation period

noun

, Pathology.
  1. the period between infection and the appearance of signs of a disease.


incubation period

noun

  1. med the time between exposure to an infectious disease and the appearance of the first signs or symptoms Sometimes shortened toincubation
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


incubation period

  1. The amount of time it takes for symptoms of a disease to appear after an individual is infected ( see infection ) with the pathogen that causes the disease.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of incubation period1

First recorded in 1875–80
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Example Sentences

Additionally, it largely doesn’t have asymptomatic transmission and has a fairly long incubation period of about a week.

From Vox

These kinds of models can reveal a lot about diseases by inferring parameters such as their reproduction number, their incubation period, or their degree of asymptomatic spread.

While 11,000 people could potentially have been exposed, officials said incomplete contact-tracing information combined with the virus’s incubation period made it difficult to confirm instances in which people were infected on a flight.

The original 14-day quarantine period was chosen because the virus can have an incubation period of up to 14 days, meaning that it could take an infected person as long as two weeks to show symptoms.

For one thing, if just 1% of expected travelers this holiday season contract coronavirus, they may spread it to more than 500,000 other people over the course of the next two to three weeks given its infectiousness and incubation period.

From Fortune

And Sherriff and baby Agnes had passed the 21 days incubation period, proving they had not contracted Ebola.

Given the incubation period of the virus, we should know by the end of the week.

Most cases of Ebola occur after a brief one- to three-day incubation period.

The incubation period was twelve days; during that time it gave no sign.

The disease might have an incubation period of nearly fifteen years, judging by the length of time it had taken to hit Durwood.

Somehow, the plague incubation period had been shortened to fit their life span; the disease was nothing if not adaptive.

Here we have the same incubation-period as in the Oxford fever, about fourteen days.

With each increase in glycerol level, motility was reduced during the incubation period.

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