incubation period

noun

, Pathology.

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

incubation period

noun

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

incubation period

1. 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.

Word History and Origins

Origin of incubation period¹

First recorded in 1875–80

Example Sentences

Additionally, it largely doesn’t have asymptomatic transmission and has a fairly long incubation period of about a week.

From Vox

These kinds of models can reveal a lot about diseases by inferring parameters such as their reproduction number, their incubation period, or their degree of asymptomatic spread.

From Quanta Magazine

While 11,000 people could potentially have been exposed, officials said incomplete contact-tracing information combined with the virus’s incubation period made it difficult to confirm instances in which people were infected on a flight.

From Washington Post

The original 14-day quarantine period was chosen because the virus can have an incubation period of up to 14 days, meaning that it could take an infected person as long as two weeks to show symptoms.

From Popular-Science

For one thing, if just 1% of expected travelers this holiday season contract coronavirus, they may spread it to more than 500,000 other people over the course of the next two to three weeks given its infectiousness and incubation period.

From Fortune

And Sherriff and baby Agnes had passed the 21 days incubation period, proving they had not contracted Ebola.

From The Daily Beast

Given the incubation period of the virus, we should know by the end of the week.

From The Daily Beast

Most cases of Ebola occur after a brief one- to three-day incubation period.

From The Daily Beast

The incubation period was twelve days; during that time it gave no sign.

From Project Gutenberg

The disease might have an incubation period of nearly fifteen years, judging by the length of time it had taken to hit Durwood.

From Project Gutenberg

Somehow, the plague incubation period had been shortened to fit their life span; the disease was nothing if not adaptive.

From Project Gutenberg

Here we have the same incubation-period as in the Oxford fever, about fourteen days.

From Project Gutenberg

With each increase in glycerol level, motility was reduced during the incubation period.

From Project Gutenberg