Incubation vs Mouthbrooding - What's the difference?
incubation | mouthbrooding |
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:
Oral incubation; the care given by some animals, especially fishes, to their offspring by holding them in the mouth for extended periods of time.
As nouns the difference between incubation and mouthbrooding
is that 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 while mouthbrooding is oral incubation; the care given by some animals, especially fishes, to their offspring by holding them in the mouth for extended periods of time.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.