latency phase

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latency phase - (psychoanalysis) the fourth period (from about age 5 or 6 until puberty) during which sexual interests are supposed to be sublimated into other activities

latency period, latency stage

depth psychology, psychoanalysis, analysis - a set of techniques for exploring underlying motives and a method of treating various mental disorders; based on the theories of Sigmund Freud; "his physician recommended psychoanalysis"

childhood - the time of person's life when they are a child

phase, stage - any distinct time period in a sequence of events; "we are in a transitional stage in which many former ideas must be revised or rejected"

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All profiles of caseinolytic enzyme production have the sames phases; latency phase, exponentially phase of enzyme production, stationary phase of enzyme production and the decreasing phase, but the different amplitudes.

Production, Partial Purification and Based SDS-PAGE Profiles of Caseinolytic Enzyme in two Bacillus Strains Isolated from Fermented Cassava leaves "Ntoba mbodi" in Congo Brazzaville

After the initial infection, CMV usually enters a latency phase. (4) Active disease may return, which is usually the result of reactivation of latent virus rather than reinfection.