单词 | latency period |
释义 | > as lemmaslatency period latency period n. (a) Medicine and Physiology = latent period n. at latent adj. and n. Compounds; (b) Psychoanalysis = sense 1c. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > [noun] > stage of disease > before manifestation of symptoms latent period1793 latency period1877 1877 Vet. Jrnl. & Ann. Compar. Pathol. 5 289 Two instances of this unusual incubative or latency period have been quite recently recorded. 1888 Amer. Jrnl. Psychol. 2 186 He bases his statement chiefly on the fact that the latency period for both contraction and dilation [of the iris] is the same. 1910 A. A. Brill tr. S. Freud Three Contrib. to Sexual Theory ii. 39 Sexual activity remains throughout the whole duration of the latency period until the reinforced breaking through of the sexual impulse in puberty. 1951 H. Davson Textbk. Gen. Physiol. xvii. 483 If, however, we take as a measure of the mechanical latent period the time between the stimulus and the moment when the tension [in the muscle] begins to rise from its minimum value, the period is 3·0 msec. 1967 B. Russell Autobiogr. I. ii. 38 I remember a very definite change when I reached what in modern child psychology is called the ‘latency period’. 1999 New Yorker 18 Oct. 198/3 Researchers of middle childhood—the preferred term of what Freud called the latency period, the elementary school years—describe a culture of ‘niceness’ into which upper-middle-class girls are typically inducted. 2003 L. Moss What Genes can't Do iv. 132 Rous distinguished between initation, which was a necessary but not sufficient precondition for carcinogenesis, and promotion, which, given an initiated state, could end the latency period, resulting in the beginning of phenotypic transformation and finally the progressive malignant transformation of the cancerous tissue. < as lemmas |
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