Synonyms for incubation
ˌɪn kyəˈbeɪ ʃən, ˌɪŋ-in·cu·ba·tion

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1. incubationnoun

   maintaining something at the most favorable temperature for its development

   Synonyms:
   brooding

2. incubationnoun

   (pathology) the phase in the development of an infection between the time a pathogen enters the body and the time the first symptoms appear

   Synonyms:
   brooding

3. brooding, incubationnoun

   sitting on eggs so as to hatch them by the warmth of the body

   Synonyms:
   brooding, pensiveness

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1. • Care
   • Pathology
   • Phase

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1. List of paraphrases for "incubation":

   hatching, incubating, incubator, hcw, preincubation

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1. Michael Osterholm:

   I seriously doubt that the Chinese public officials have any data supporting this statement, i know of no evidence in 17 years of working with coronaviruses -- SARS and MERS -- where anyone has been found to be infectious during their incubation period.

2. Steve Schmidt:

   The important thing is to quickly collect as many of the carcasses as possible, to prevent other birds from feeding on the infected birds, biologists observed about 20 eagles in the vicinity of some of the carcasses. Because of a delayed incubation period it is uncertain where these eagles might be located, if and when the avian cholera affects them.

3. William Jennings Bryan:

   Do not compute the totality of your poultry population until all the manifestations of incubation have been entirely completed.

4. Wu Minzhou:

   Because there's an ... incubation period at play here, if they head out, for example, to cities in the north of China then it's highly possible they will infect those areas too.

5. David Heymann:

   A border doesn't stop infections, people can cross borders while they're in the incubation period. So screening will pick out some, but it certainly won't get others, so what's important at screening is to tell people, not only' we're taking your temperature'. But giving them some kind of notification about where they go should they get a fever.