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. --
Blots were incubated overnight with the various test sera.
The plates were incubated at room temperature for 60 min and washed before a substrate solution was added.
The cultures were incubated and colony diameters of the fungi were measured at regular intervals.
Three embryonated chicken eggs incubated for 9 days were injected with 0.2 ml of the solution per egg.
The wells were overlaid with a mixture of agarose and tissue culture medium and incubated for 7-13 days.
Retinas were dissected from dark-adapted mice and incubated for 30 min in dark or ambient light.
The gels were blotted onto nitrocellulose, the nitrocellulose cut into strips, and the strips incubated with antibodies to cytoskeletal proteins.
Only weak aggregation of cells was observed when cultures were incubated at room temperature for a similar time span.
