latency period in a sentence

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1. The time between the exposure to a carcinogen and medical diagnosis of cancer, called latency period, is often 10 to 20 years ."
2. Any juvenile instar stage can become infected, but the virus has a 3-week latency period before it can be transmitted to another plant.
3. This idea raises some questions as to what latency period constitutes an inactive user .-- D 02 : 24, 17 March 2007 ( UTC)
4. Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies have a long latency period, he said, which means many people in the South may be at risk and not know it.
5. Because of the long latency period between exposure and development of asbestos-related diseases, exposed Manhattan residents, especially rescue-and-recovery workers, may suffer future adverse health effects.
6. Brandling-Bennet said the increase will occur because of the " latency period up to or exceeding 20 years before diseases develop in people who smoke ."
7. This suggested to Elaine Hull of the State University of New York at Buffalo that serotonin may control the normal latency period that separates male orgasms.
8. The latency period, the time from when someone is exposed to asbestos to the first serious signs of disease, can be as long as 40 years.
9. People affected by occupational asthma that occurred after a latency period, whether a few months or years, should be immediately removed from exposure to the causative agent.
10. Exposure to the unprecedented combination of carcinogens and immune suppressants in the dust caused shortened latency periods for cancers that would generally take far longer to develop.