Incubation
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The word incubation (from the Latin incubare, "to lie upon") can mean the followinges:
- In chemistry or biochemistry, incubation refers to maintaining a system under specific conditions in order to promote a particular reaction.
- The term Avian incubation is applied to sitting on or brooding bird's eggs in order to hatch them.
- In economics and management, incubation refers to the support provided by business incubators in the development phase of startups when entrepreneurs work on the launch of their companies.
- Newborn infants requiring warming when they cannot maintain their normal body temperature are cared for in an incubator in the Neonatal intensive care unit.
- An incubation period in medicine means the time between being exposed to infection and showing first symptoms.
- Incubator (microbiology), refers to maintaining a bacterial culture at a particular temperature for a set length of time, in order to measure bacterial growth.
- Incubation also refers to the religious practice of sleeping in a sacred area with the intention of experiencing a divinely-inspired dream or cure. Incubation was practised by members of the cult of Asclepius and votive offerings found at his ritual centres at Epidaurus, Pergamum and Rome detail the perceived effectiveness of the method. Incubation was adopted by certain Christian sects and is still used in a few Greek monasteries. Cf. incubus (demon), or a nightmare.
- Incubation (computer game) is a computer game.
- Incubation (song) is a song by Joy Division, released on the B-side of the Komakino flexi-single in 1980, and on the Substance album in 1988.
- The [Wikimedia Incubator] is a wiki comprising of test articles for Wikipedia.
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