dormancy

Microbes surviving for millions of years in deep dormancy upend evolution.
Preserving a Sense of Wonder in DNA - Issue 92: Frontiers|Virat Markandeya|October 28, 2020|Nautilus
Instead, he found that they developed erratically and sometimes experienced periods of dormancy before reawakening.
How Big Pharma Holds Back in the War on Cancer|ProPublica|April 23, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The result was a long dormancy in which many Democrats became uncomfortable with open expressions of faith.
How My Party Found God|Mike McCurry|December 15, 2008|DAILY BEAST
It has now to be shewn that the germs of disease also retain their vital powers in a state of dormancy during a lengthened period.
Epidemics Examined and Explained: or, Living Germs Proved by Analogy to be a Source of Disease|John Grove

The activity of the plague in London in 1563 made up for its dormancy in the years preceding.
A History of Epidemics in Britain (Volume I of II)|Charles Creighton
A distinction of great importance from a physiological and a practical point of view is made between rest and dormancy in plants.
Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Thirty-Eighth Annual Meeting|Northern Nut Growers Association
Men wonder at mummy-wheat germinating after a thousand years of dormancy.
McClure's Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 1, June 1893|Various
In the locality of my study racers spend approximately half the year in winter dormancy.
Natural History of the Racer Coluber constrictor|Henry S. Fitch

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