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Example sentences for "incubation"

Lexicographically close words:
incrusted; incrusting; incubate; incubated; incubating; incubator; incubators; incubi; incubus; inculcate
  1. Because of their incubation period and life cycle, likely areas for live agent use are in the combat service support (CSS) area; but attacks in forward areas cannot be ruled out.

  2. This incubation period may vary from hours to days or weeks depending on the type of organism.

  3. Incubation of duck eggs can be carried on in the same manner as chicken eggs, except that more moisture is essential to good hatches.

  4. The period of incubation varies from 30 to 35 days, depending upon the size of the breed.

  5. The period of incubation is 28 days and they may be hatched under the same conditions as chickens.

  6. The incubation period has not been definitely established in human beings.

  7. Incubation periods vary according to the disease from a few hours to two or three weeks.

  8. The interval between the moment when pathogenic germs enter the body, and the time when symptoms first appear and the patient begins to feel ill, is called the incubation period.

  9. At the same time, Bonhoeffer does not find that the incubation period in paresis can be shortened by war factors; at all events, by the exhaustion factor in war (see Case 25).

  10. It is remarkable that the hysterical attack had such a long incubation period in this case: twelve hours after his removal from the marsh.

  11. There are cases also in which the period of incubation could not have been less than two or three weeks.

  12. Therefore, deducting the three or four days occupied by the invasion stage, we shall find that the real incubation period is from nine to ten days from the date of exposure.

  13. In these cases the periods of incubation varied from one to twenty-five days, the average duration being ten days.

  14. The period of incubation is from two to seven days.

  15. The period of incubation is from one to three weeks.

  16. Its period of incubation is from eleven to fourteen days.

  17. It is sometimes interesting to know where a child could have caught a disease; so if we know the incubation period we can tell exactly where the child was on the day, or days, when it was infected.

  18. The structure was completed and incubation had begun before I discovered what was going on.

  19. One night, when incubation was about half finished, the nest was harried.

  20. Defn: The pouch in which incubation takes place in some Tunicata.

  21. The male has a pouch on his belly, in which the incubation of the eggs takes place.

  22. The incubation of the eggs takes place in the capsules, and the young, when hatched, come forth with well developed legs.

  23. Period of incubation, or Stage of incubation (Med.

  24. Although both sexes take part in the construction of the nursery, the work of incubation appears to fall entirely upon the hen.

  25. I would lay especial stress on the active part in courtship played by the hen, the large share in incubation taken by the cock, and the change in the plumage of the cock bird from chestnut to white in the third year of his existence.

  26. The pouch in which incubation takes place in some Tunicata.

  27. When the usual time of incubation is completed, and the young sparrows and cuckoo are disengaged from the eggs, the former are ejected from the nest, and the stranger obtains exclusive possession.

  28. Incubation now follows, and is the exclusive task of the female for nearly twelve days.

  29. The destruction of a nest while incubation is progressing, most generally leads to the renewal of the attempt in some other place.

  30. Incubation is doubtless performed by them both, the female assuming the bulk of the labor.

  31. This is followed by a second on the next day, when further efforts in this direction cease, and incubation at once proceeds.

  32. Incubation now ensues, sometimes on the day of the last deposit, but generally on the morrow.

  33. Incubation is at once assumed by the lady-bird, and seems to be her exclusive business for the space of fourteen or fifteen days.

  34. Incubation closely, follows, usually a day or two after the last egg is laid.

  35. Incubation immediately ensues, and continues for a period of eight days.

  36. The period of incubation has never been determined.

  37. The period of incubation ranges from fifteen to sixteen days.

  38. Incubation commences shortly after the eggs are laid, and is mainly the result of the female, who, for nearly eighteen days, is a very assiduous sitter.

  39. Incubation begins immediately after the eggs are laid, according to Mr. Evermann, and is the exclusive duty of the female for about fourteen days.

  40. The period of incubation ranges from nineteen to twenty days.

  41. When this happens the Cow-bird's egg is lost if incubation is far advanced; but if the eggs have been sat on three or four days only, then it has a good chance of being hatched and the young bird reared along with its foster-brothers.

  42. Several females often lay in one nest, so that the number of eggs in it frequently makes incubation impossible.

  43. They also frequently lay in nests where incubation has actually begun.

  44. The incubation period is said to be about 7 days.

  45. Incubation is believed to begin in July or August, and the young is hatched about a month later.

  46. In serpents the eggs differ from those of birds by undergoing a sort of incubation from the very first, so that whenever examined, the embryo more or less advanced will be found.

  47. In due course eggs will be laid and incubation performed, and thus far all alike will probably be successful.

  48. A few square feet of rock sufficient for the immediate purpose of incubation is all that can be allowed if the species is to maintain its position in the struggle for existence.

  49. The New York Board of Health, cites eight different forms in which the disease may appear and acknowledges a startling failure to determine either any uniform period of incubation (i.

  50. Period of incubation given as, from two to seven days.

  51. During the first stages of incubation the germ is very distinct, even at the third day.

  52. Three years more of incubation were needed to hatch the "bird o' freedom," and it is not until 1782 that we hear of a further movement.

  53. Nidification commences about the end of March or beginning of April; incubation lasts about seventeen days, and in a month from the time of hatching the young are ready to fly.

  54. Incubation lasts about sixteen days; incubatio, as we have already explained in the first series of "Nests and Eggs," is the Latin for to lie or sit upon.

  55. The time of incubation is fourteen days, and the female is so much attached to the young birds, that she will often suffer herself to be taken rather than desert them.

  56. The period of incubation is sixteen or seventeen days.

  57. Incubation lasts twenty days; both male and female sit on the eggs, in defence of which and their young, they will fight desperately, driving off the hawks, and even eagles and vultures.

  58. The period of incubation is about three weeks; the young, like Partridges, run as soon as hatched.

  59. The art of incubation is very old and very extensively practiced in China.

  60. Throughout the incubation period the most careful watch and control is kept over the temperature.

  61. While the percentage of successful incubation is fairly large, yet the numerous enemies of the feathered tribe make the uncertainty of life in birdland quite noticeable.

  62. However, during the season of incubation the tender solicitude of the male for his mate is best shown.

  63. And by a sacred incubation fed With life this frame, Which once had neither being, form, nor name!

  64. The stanza is indeed lovely, and true and tender and clever as well; yet who can help smiling at the notion of the incubation of the heart-egg, although what the poet means is so good that the smile almost vanishes in a sigh?

  65. Since the period of incubation varies from three weeks to six months, as in man, the dog may possibly have been infected before coming into your possession.

  66. The suffused eyeball is sometimes found in the premonitory stage of the disease, after incubation has progressed to a certain degree.


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    Other words:
    covering; greatness; pregnancy; sitting