英语释义
1. the period between the infection of an individual by a pathogen and the manifestation of the illness or disease it causes
2. the period between the infection of an individual by a pathogen and the manifestation of the disease it causes
Mono, which has an incubation period of 30 to 50 days, characteristically announces itself with headaches, fever, sore throat, tonsillitis, and extreme fatigue.
— Your Health & Fitness, October/November 1986 Quarantines worked to control the SARS epidemic because SARS is much less contagious than flu and has a longer incubation period.
— Christine Gorman, Time, 17 Oct. 1995