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Time period between disease occurrence and detection, sometimes used interchangeably with induction.
Ãâó: www.cdc.gov/niosh/2001-133o.html
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(adjective LATENT): the state in which a pathogenic organism is present in the body but not actively replicating or causing illness.
Ãâó: www.aegis.com/pubs/beta/2000/BE000419.html
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a QUIESCENT period during a disease process. Clinical latency is an ASYMPTOMATIC period in the early years of HIV infection. The period of latency is characterized in the peripheral blood by stable, slightly depressed CD4 CELL COUNTS and low HIV levels. Research indicates that HIV remains quite active in the LYMPH NODES during this period. Cellular latency is a condition that exists in some cells after HIV has integrated its GENOME into the cell's DNA but has not yet begun to replicate. ...
Ãâó: www.gmhc.org/health/glossary3.html
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an interval. Sleep latency is the interval from "lights out" until sleep begins. REM latency is the period from the beginning of sleep to the first appearance of rapid eye movement (REM) sleep.
Ãâó: www.sleepcompliance.com/html/glossary.htm
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is the time a computer spends waiting before a download (or other data request) starts. It's slightly different from bandwidth. Bandwidth is the time required to move the data. If you have a low-latency or "low ping" connection, your downloads start sooner. If you have a high-bandwidth connection, your downloads finish sooner. Think of a garden hose versus a fire hose: if the garden hose starts running sooner, it has lower "latency" than the fire hose. ...
Ãâó: www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/networking/getst...
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