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latent period
latent period n. (a) Medicine the period of time during which a disease, infectious agent, etc., is present without producing symptoms or clinical signs, or between exposure to a pathogenic agent and the development of disease; an instance of this; cf. sense A. 4; (b) Physiology the period of time between a stimulus and a response, esp. in muscle (see also latency n. 2a); an instance of this; also in extended use.
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latent period1793
1793 J. Haygarth Sketch Plan to Exterminate Casual Small-pox II. 539 To the small collection of facts, recorded in the inquiry, to determine the latent period of casual infection, five cases are added of unquestionable authority.
1837 M. Hall Princ. Theory & Pract. Med. 143 A latent period of from ten to fourteen days intervenes between exposure [to rubeola] and the development of the febrile symptoms.
1877 M. Foster Text Bk. Physiol. i. ii. 37 A phase antecedent to any visible alteration in the muscle..during which invisible preparatory changes are taking place in the nerve and muscle, is often called the ‘latent period’.
1926 L. Hogben Compar. Physiol. viii. 140 The rate of conduction can be determined directly by observing the difference in the latent period of muscular contraction, when a nerve-muscle preparation is stimulated at points along the nerve separated by a measured distance apart.
1947 Radiology 49 361/2 The incidence of bone tumors was approximately proportional to the dose administered, and the latent period—in no case less than about 200 days—increased gradually with decreasing dose.
1996 H. G. Cragon Memory Syst. & Pipelined Processors i. 1 Latency or latent period is the total time associated with the processing (from excitation to response) of a particular data unit at a phase in the computing process.
2007 K. T. Palmer et al. Fitness for Work (ed. 4) xviii. 421 Mesothelioma..arises after a long latent period—rarely less than 20 years from first exposure, and typically 35–40 years.
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