incubation period
C1CEFR level
65/100Rarity: rare
TechnicalRegister
The interval between exposure to a pathogen and the onset of clinical symptoms.
Given a two-week incubation period, her symptoms fit exposure during the trip abroad.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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