NOUN
- the time that elapses before the presence of a disease is manifested by symptoms
- the time that elapses between a stimulus and the response to it
How To Use latent period In A Sentence
- During this "latent period" a part of these sexual energies is separated from the sexual aim and applied to cultural and social ends, a process which Freud has designated by the name sublimation as important for culture, history and the individual. Studies in Forensic Psychiatry
- Clinically apparent asbestosis occurs only after a significant latent period.
- Meanwhile the results expose influence of the latent period and inflected period to the epidemic.