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latent period

la·tent pe·ri·od (plural la·tent pe·ri·ods)


noun 
Definition:
 
1. medicine disease incubation period: the incubation period of a disease

2. physiology time between stimulus and response: the interval between the application of a stimulus and the start of a response

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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