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. Will Humble:

   What I'd be focusing right now on is sounding the alarm to our hospital systems to get ready, because no matter what Will Humble do at this point, given where we are at the increase in cases, the exponential growth, taking into consideration the incubation period for this virus, we're going to go into surge capacity mode by the Fourth of July.

3. 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.

4. Los Cabos Trust:

   Twenty days after their return to Austin, Texas, they had already passed the incubation period established by the World Health Organization.

5. Bertrand de Jouvenel:

   Democracy, then, in the centralizing, pattern-making, absolutist shape which we have given to it is, it is clear, the time of tyranny's incubation.