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Definition of Incubators

1. incubator [n] - See also: incubator

Medical Definition of Incubators

1. Insulated enclosures in which temperature, humidity, and other environmental conditions can be regulated at levels optimal for growth, hatching, reproduction, or metabolic reactions. (12 Dec 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Incubators

Literary usage of Incubators

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Principles and Practice of Poultry Culture by John Henry Robinson (1912)
"If it is known that eggs from a certain lot are hatching 80 per cent, either under hens or in other incubators, a much lower hatch in any case is reasonably ..."

2. The Journal of General Physiology by Society of General Physiologists, Rockefeller Institute, Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (1920)
"A DEVICE FOR REGULATING THE TEMPERATURE OF incubators EITHER ABOVE OR BELOW ROOM TEMPERATURE. Bv JOHN H. NORTHROP. (From the Laboratories of The Rockefeller ..."

3. The Lancet (1898)
"THE DANGER OF MAKING A PUBLIC SHOW OF incubators FOR BABIES. THE introduction of incubators for babies into this country has been favourably noticed in THE ..."

4. Farm Poultry: A Popular Sketch of Domestic Fowls for the Farmer and Amateur by George Catchpole Watson (1919)
"incubators Before an incubator is purchased for the farm, ... The successful management of incubators requires close attention and the best thought of the ..."

5. The Diseases of infancy and childhood by Henry Koplik (1918)
"incubators.— The simplest model of an efficient incubator for maintaining the ... The most efficient incubators are made of metal or are porcelain-lined, ..."

6. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1905)
"Some Large but Inexpensive incubators for Teaching and Working Laboratories: SC PRESCOTT, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. ..."

7. Commentaries on the Law of Private Corporations by Seymour Dwight Thompson, Edward Franklin White (1910)
"incubators. To manufacture and sell incubators, brooders and hovers, and all machines, appliances and mechanisms necessary thereto or may be utilized in the ..."

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