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Definition of Latency period

1. Noun. (psychoanalysis) the fourth period (from about age 5 or 6 until puberty) during which sexual interests are supposed to be sublimated into other activities.

Medical Definition of Latency period

1. The period from about 5 to 7 years to adolescence when there is an apparent cessation of psychosexual development. (12 Dec 1998)

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Literary usage of Latency period

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

1. The Medical Implications of Nuclear War by Fredric Solomon (1986)
"Radiation-induced solid tumors appear only after a latency period. The length of the latency period seems to decrease with dose increases. ..."

2. Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine (1903)
"Although immunized mice died with tumors after a long latency period, ... Effect of antiviral IgGs on the latency period of DEN-induced lung tumors in SWR/J ..."

3. Three Contributions to the Sexual Theory by Sigmund Freud (1910)
"We will therefore add that the same process acts in the development of every individual, and that it begins to act in the sexual latency period.5 We can ..."

4. The Status of Efforts to Identify Persian Gulf War Syndrome edited by Christopher Shays (1999)
"Let me ask you about the whole issue of latency period. ... The latency period. I will tell you something that just, kind of, rings in my ear and in my ..."

5. A Lifelong Passion: Nicholas and Alexandra: Their Own Story by Andrei Maylunas (2005)
"The concept of latency period has developed in chronic disease epidemiology by ... We discuss the use of the concept of mean latency period to describe the ..."

6. Fundamental Conceptions of Psychoanalysis by Abraham Arden Brill (1921)
"Then we have the latency period, from about four to eight, ... We must bear in mind that it is during the latency period that the child receives most of ..."

7. Contributions to Psycho-analysis by Sándor Ferenczi (1916)
"I surmise that the loss of this visual and motor character comes about not gradually, but in a series of stages, and that the advent of the latency period ..."

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