INCUBATION PERIOD Definition & Meaning

incubation period

noun

Pathology.

the period between infection and the appearance of signs of a disease.

incubation period

noun

med the time between exposure to an infectious disease and the appearance of the first signs or symptoms Sometimes shortened toincubation

incubation period

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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Origin of incubation period¹

First recorded in 1875–80

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The incubation period was delayed a bit as Jackie waited to deliver all her eggs.

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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.

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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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Paul Hunter, a professor in medicine at the University of East Anglia, said it’s likely more people will become ill with cryptosporidiosis in coming days or weeks because of a lag in the incubation period.

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The onset of symptoms can sometimes take as long as 20 years because the infectious bacteria have a lengthy incubation period and proliferate slowly in the human body.

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