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slow-wave sleep [1 record]

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Record 1 2013-12-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • General Medicine, Hygiene and Health
DEF

A state of deep usually dreamless sleep that occurs regularly during a normal period of sleep with intervening periods of REM [rapid eye movement] sleep and that is characterized by delta waves and a low level of autonomic physiological activity.

OBS

Together, NREM [non-rapid eye movement] sleep stages 3 and 4 are often known as slow wave sleep (SWS).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Médecine générale, hygiène et santé
OBS

Le «sommeil lent» est ainsi appelé car il est caractérisé par un ralentissement et une augmentation d'amplitude progressive des ondes électriques corticales. [...] Les stades 1 et 2 du sommeil lent constituent le sommeil lent léger, et les stades 3 et 4 constituent le sommeil lent profond.

Spanish

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