latent period
Noun
Meaning
the time that elapses between a stimulus and the response to it
the time that elapses before the presence of a disease is manifested by symptoms
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Examples
He said: "First, at any given time, about 30% of infected people are in the latent period, the three to five days after they have been infected, where the virus is multiplying inside their cells and is not yet detectable.
It is important to continuously observe these plants because rust diseases have a latent period (plant has the disease but shows no symptoms).
The patient gradually becomes ill, or becomes ill after a long latent period.
Précigout and his colleagues believed that the trophic type of a fungi is related to its latent period, which is the duration of the host colonization phase before reproduction.