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incubation
[ in-kyuh-bey-shuhn, ing- ]
incubation
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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.
- The act of keeping an organism, a cell, or cell culture in conditions favorable for growth and development.
- The maintenance of an infant, especially one that is ill or born before the usual gestation period, in an environment of controlled temperature, humidity, and oxygen concentration in order to provide optimal conditions for growth and development.
- The development of an infection from the time the pathogen enters the body until signs or symptoms first appear.
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Origin of incubation1
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Steers believes a more realistic timeline is 38 to 40 days until the first one may hatch, due to the delayed incubation.
Albatross parents share incubation duties and, once the chick hatches, feeding duties.
As a first step, researchers collected eggs found in the wild and hatched them in incubation centres.
Listeria is unusually hard to trace after an outbreak because it has a long incubation period — the CDC says it can take up to 10 weeks for some people to develop symptoms.
The pair were married three years later, and Feminella launched his dating app First Round’s on Me nationwide in August after a four-year incubation period.
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