Incubation vs Intubation - What's the difference?
incubation | intubation |
Sitting on eggs for the purpose of hatching young; a brooding on, or keeping warm, to develop the life within, by any process.
(pathology) The development of a disease from its causes, or its period of incubation. (See below.)
(chemistry) A period of little reaction which is followed by more rapid reaction.
Sleeping in a temple or other holy place in order to have oracular dreams.
* 1978 , Benjamin Walker, Encyclopedia of Metaphysical Medicine , Routledge 1978, p. 144:
(medicine) The introduction of a tube into an organ to keep it open, as into the larynx in croup.
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As nouns the difference between intubation and incubation
is that intubation is the introduction of a tube into an organ to keep it open, as into the larynx in croup while incubation is sitting on eggs for the purpose of hatching young; a brooding on, or keeping warm, to develop the life within, by any process.incubation
English
Noun
(en noun)- Incubation in the vicinity of burial places, cremation grounds, holy wells and sacred streams was common. The ancient Hebrews visited vaults or slept among tombs to get meaningful dreams.