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period
(redirected from incubation period)

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period noun age, bout, continuance, course, duration, eon, epoch, era, hitch, interval, juncture, length of time, limited time, point, season, shift, span, spell, stage, stint, stretch, tenure, term, time, time interval, time stretch, tour, while
Associated concepts: period of redemption
See also: age, annum, cycle, date, duration, expiration, life, moratorium, tenure, term, time


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This is a disease with a very long incubation period during which people infected with vCJD appear completely normal," Rohwer says.
Emergence of Cryptococcus gattii in a novel environment provides clues to its incubation period.
The exact incubation period and period of communicability, for any newly emerging influenza virus, will be unknown until there have been opportunities to study the virus characteristics.
 
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