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Treatment vs Incubation - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between treatment and incubation

is that treatment is the process or manner of treating someone or something 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.

treatment

English

Noun

  • The process or manner of treating someone or something.
    • He still has nightmares resulting from the treatment he received from his captors.
  • (senseid)Medical care for an illness or injury.
    • A treatment or cure is applied after a medical problem has already started.
    Cancer survivors who got radiation treatments as children have nearly twice the risk of developing diabetes as adults.
    The change is due largely to the increased availability of antiretroviral treatment .
  • The use of a substance or process to preserve or give particular properties to something.
  • (countable) A treatise; a formal written description or characterization of a subject.
  • *
    • Firstly, I continue to base most species treatments on personally collected material, rather than on herbarium plants.
  • (countable, film) A brief, third-person, present-tense summary of a proposed film.
  • (obsolete) entertainment; treat
  • * (rfdate) Alexander Pope
    • Accept such treatment as a swain affords.

    Derived terms

    * silent treatment

    Related terms

    * treat

    incubation

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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:
    • 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.

    Derived terms

    * incubation period

    Related terms

    * incubate * incubative * incubator