0 past simple and past participle of incubate
1 When a bird, etc. incubates its eggs, it keeps them warm until the young come out, and when eggs incubate, they develop to the stage at which the young come out:
2 When harmful bacteria or viruses incubate, or when a person or animal incubates them, they increase in size or number in the person's or animal's body but do not yet produce the effects of disease.
Values are expressed relative to a control mixture which was incubated with no trypsin or inhibitor.
The pats were incubated at low or high humidity.
Tachyzoites (4i10%) were incubated for 30 min in cell culture medium with decreasing concentrations of serum.
Figure 4 shows a typical linkograph, which has many cohesive links but very few incubated links.
We refer to links that connect segments that are far apart and those that are not in working memory as incubated linked segments.
Retinas were incubated in primary antibody in blocking solution overnight at room temperature with gentle agitation.
In the present trial, faecal cultures incubated for 14 days showed more consistent reduction percentages, compared to cultures incubated only for 7 days.
Only weak aggregation of cells was observed when cultures were incubated at room temperature for a similar time span.
