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Similarly, if the stimulation is repeated a third time, the period of latency will be still shorter, and the ensuing contraction still stronger.
Systematically placed in a genus with red-flowering species, we may regard its white color as due to the latency of the general red pigment.
And even this latency is not a complete one, as little scales remind us of the leaves, and traces of chlorophyll still exist in the tissues.
All the hitherto recorded cases of latency have this in common, that they may become active during the life-time of any given individual once, or oftener.
And this complex play of forces, which finds its physiological expression in a lengthening of the time of latency, finds also a psychological expression in the rise of consciousness.
Their intervals of latency are variable, often regulated by the change of season, especially liable to reappear in the springtime, and sometimes after many years of complete immunity.
In the second place, Molly had not yet passed completely through the stage of infantile sexuality into the latency period, when normally sex goes underground until puberty.
If it is granted that latency is not an absolute quality, then it will be readily accepted, that even latency must be subjected to the laws of gradual variation or fluctuating variability.
"Only in search of events, grandfather," she said, looking out of the window with that drowsy latency of manner which discovered so much force behind it whenever the trigger was pressed.
The little girl has repressed her guilt feelings toward her mother, along with all of her directly sensual feelings, and during the latency period Mother emerges as a model to imitate.
And in the present instance there are certain definite objections which may fairly be made to the hypothesis that a telepathic impression derived from a dying person may emerge after hours of latency.
Except his sister Mary, he had never before been upon terms of close familiarity with any woman, and he realized with elation that now for the first time the latencies of manhood were aroused.