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incubation
noun as in gestation
noun as in preparation
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The incubation period can stretch from several days to three weeks.
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This is the most serious form of the plague and can have an incubation period of just one day.
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Depending on the species of vulture we're talking about, incubation ranges from 50 days to almost two months.
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Because of the lengthy incubation time, “we really have to get ahead of this,” Gounder said.
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Steers believes a more realistic timeline is 38 to 40 days until the first one may hatch, due to the delayed incubation.
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