Synonyms for incubation period
in·cu·ba·tion pe·ri·od

Princeton's WordNet

1. incubation periodnoun

   the period between infection and the appearance of symptoms of the disease

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1. David Heymann:

   Infectious agents travel around in humans many times within their incubation period.

2. Los Cabos Trust:

   Twenty days after their return to Austin, Texas, they had already passed the incubation period established by the World Health Organization.

3. Martin Cetron:

   We believe that this approach of having a quarantine for the incubation period offers the greatest level of protection for the American public in preventing introduction and spread, that is our primary concern.

4. Alex Azar:

   Dr. Redfield and I made the offer on January 6th - 36 days ago, 60,000 cases and 1,300 deaths ago, we made the offer to send the The CDC experts in to assist their Chinese colleagues to get to the bottom of key scientific questions like, how transmissible is this disease ? What is the severity ? What is the incubation period and can there be asymptomatic transmission ?

5. David Heymann:

   A border doesn't stop infections, people can cross borders while they're in the incubation period. So screening will pick out some, but it certainly won't get others, so what's important at screening is to tell people, not only' we're taking your temperature'. But giving them some kind of notification about where they go should they get a fever.