latent period
noun
1
- Medicine the period between infection with a virus or other micro-organism and the onset of symptoms, or between exposure to radiation and the appearance of a cancer【医】潜伏期。
2
- Physiology the delay between the receipt of a stimulus by a sensory nerve and the response to it【生理】反应期(指感觉神经接受刺激后反应时间的延迟)。