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| la·tent pe·ri·od (plural la·tent pe·ri·ods) |
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1. medicine disease incubation period: the incubation period of a disease
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2. physiology time between stimulus and response: the interval between the application of a stimulus and the start of a response
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3. psychoanalysis theoretical childhood developmental stage: in Freudian theory, a period between five or six years of age and adolescence when sexual interest is suppressed
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