Based on this theory, cancer may develop in populations of cells that are left in a dormant state in developing organs during embryogenesis.
By contrast, the tiny spores live in a dormant state.
What if her cancer had persisted in a dormant state during her remissions — effectively frozen but ready to germinate?
Through Lake Averno, in a dormant but sulphurous crater near Naples, geology gave to religion the underworld reserved for sinners.
Seeds can remain viable in a dormant condition for a few days or, in some species, for hundreds of years.
"When a Supreme Court Justice indicates interest in a dormant constitutional question, people take note, especially if it's a question that's otherwise generating a lot of controversy.
When the water evaporates, the eggs survive in a dormant state in the dried mud, ready to hatch when the rains come again.
But the government has made it clear it won't support another ETS similar to the one the parliament just abolished – even in a dormant form.
Without encystment, which allows the organism to live in a dormant state in an unfavourable environment (e.g., water), amebic dysentery could be much more easily controlled.
One reason people cannot be cured now is that the virus hides in a dormant state, out of reach of existing drugs.
In the third type of migration, insects travel from their breeding areas to places where they hibernate or estivate i.e., pass the summer in a dormant state.
