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It may remain in a state of latency for an indefinite time; then transferred to a new field, it may resume its original activities.
The latency of the faculty of producing the red pigment in leaves must obviously be accepted for nearly the whole vegetable kingdom.
The latency of disease, as shown by an absence of the characteristic symptoms observed in earlier adult life, is often remarkable in the aged.
Nature, as we saw in the latency period, must not only prepare her biologically for womanhood but must ready her psychologically too.
In certain cases where the faculty is already developed but lying in latency, any shining surface will suffice to bring it into activity.
As to the time of latency, facts crowd upon us indefinitely, as elements of comparison between vegetation generally, and disease in its early stages and history.
While Molly had no further sexual experiences in her latency period, she began to behave differently from the other girls in her group very early.
Even the first appearance was several hours after the death, but this we might explain by the latency of the impression till a season of quiet.
After the reception of the contagion into the system, there follows a period of incubation or latency during which scarcely any disturbance of the health is perceptible.
Setting aside the contrast between activity and latency in this single pair, the procedure in the inter-crossing of varieties is the same as in ordinary normal fertilization.
The fact of the double object selection which is essentially due to the effect of the latency period, becomes most significant for the disturbance of this terminal state.
In this latency of the sacred authorities, withdrawn from all communication with the human understanding, there were retained still many of the terms and names belonging to religion.
If, as soon as the tissue has relaxed, the stimulation is again repeated, the period of latency will be somewhat shorter, and will be followed by a somewhat stronger contraction.
Here the latency of the red pigment may be deduced partly from general arguments like those just given, partly from the special systematic relations in the given cases.
Latency in one generation, with activity in the next, is frequently observed in the transmission of disease; but in the case of crime, as distinguished from vice, this is rarely so.
All humanity is latent in every human being; and the great writers are merely those who call most of it out of latency and put it actually on the stage.
The higher stage is the knowledge of this implied unity, which in its latency the classical art-type receives as its content and is able to perfectly represent in bodily shape.
The experimental cases to which I have referred as analogous are few and uncertain, and, moreover, in them the period of latency has been measured by seconds or minutes, not by hours.
And so far does the process of Elimination extend, that principles involved even in our "looking on" must not be drawn out of their latency, for fear they should become accepted parts of knowledge.
Patricia, under the influence of her prematurely strong sexual response to her father, had been forced to enter her latency period, we were able to determine, at the far too early age of four.
Failure of the relationship with her father is the chief danger the little girl faces during her latency period, which, as you may recall, she encounters from six to ten years of age.
Its latency and re-appearance in stocks.
Subtle underlying forces began to stir in their portentous latency.
Hitherto we have dealt with negative characters and tried to prove that the conception of latency of the opposite positive characteristics is a more natural explanation of the phenomenon than the idea of a complete loss.
The sexual activity of the child, however, does not develop in the same measure as its other functions, but merges first into the so-called latency period from the age of three to the age of five years.
He does not reach the several principles of the common sense by the way of probable generalization from observed facts; rather as truths which arise out of latency into more or less distinct consciousness, in response to steadfast meditation.