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Definition of Latent period

1. Noun. The time that elapses between a stimulus and the response to it.

2. Noun. The time that elapses before the presence of a disease is manifested by symptoms.

Medical Definition of Latent period

1. A seemingly inactive period, as that between exposure of tissue to an injurious agent and the manifestation of response or that between the instant of stimulation and the beginning of response. This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Latent Period

latent content latent content latent diabetes latent diabetes latent energy latent heat latent heat latent homosexuality latent hostility latent hyperopia

latent infection latent learning latent microbism latent nystagmus latent period (current term) latent period (current term) latent rat virus latent reflex latent schizophrenia latent schizophrenia

latent stage latent syphilis latent tetany latent typhoid latent virus latent zone later later(a) laterad laterad

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