Physiologic Function
slow-wave sleep
slow·wave sleep
Subclass of:
Sleep Stages
Definitions related to sleep, slow-wave:
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(slow-wave sleep) Sleep stages 3 and 4; during slow-wave sleep the brain becomes less responsive to external stimuli.Harvard Dictionary of Health TermsHarvard Medical Publishing, 2011
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A stage of sleep characterized by synchronized wave activity as observed in the ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; the waves exhibit a frequency of 0.5 to 2 Hz, and a peak-to-peak amplitude greater than 75 microvolts.NLM Medical Subject HeadingsU.S. National Library of Medicine, 2021
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