Incubation

Incubation (lat. Incubare "to lie", "to hatch") has different meanings:

in biology:

• Incubation of z. B. Bird eggs with warmth until young hatch, see brood
• Cultivation of cell cultures or bacterial cultures, for example, in a heating cabinet, see incubator (biology)
• Allowing enzymes, antibodies, etc. to act on a substrate

in the medicine:

• the establishment and multiplication of pathogens in the body ( see also: incubation period )
• raising premature babies in an incubator, see incubator (medicine)
• the temple sleep in antiquity, see Enkoimesis

in psychology:

• Incubation (psychology) , incubation in connection with traumatic experiences or problem solving
• Trauminkubation , a modern dream technique in which an answer or solution to a personal question or problem is incubated by a question before bedtime by a dream.
• In a figurative sense, unconscious incubation of ideas in a relaxation phase after an intensive phase of thinking, see Enkoimesis (temple sleep) and phases of the creative process # Incubation

See also:

• incubator
• Incubus (demon)
• Business incubator

Wiktionary: incubate  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

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