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What is an incubation period?

What is an incubation period? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (epidemiology) The time elapsed between an exposure to a pathogenic organism, a chemical or radiation, and the appearance of signs and symptoms.
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They are gregarious throughout the year, with the exception of the laying and incubation period.
The hatching success in the Manx shearwaters is strongly determined by the incidence of rainfall during the incubation period.
It has an incubation period of between two and 10 days and initial symptoms are similar to flu.
The local experience indicated that the incubation period is between two and 11 days.
It was extremely difficult to estimate how many people have a disease which, frighteningly, may have an incubation period of as long as 40 years.
There is no support for the idea that female larks work harder during the chick rearing period compared with the incubation period.

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