Medical Term:
latency
Pronunciation: lā′ten-sē
Definition:
- The state of being latent.
- In conditioning, or other behavioral experiments, the period of apparent inactivity between the time the stimulus is presented and the moment a response occurs.
- In psychoanalysis, the period of time from approximately age 5 years to puberty.
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Examples: glitazone, GI cocktail, etc.
