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NREM
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English
Etymology
en non-rapid eye movement.
Pronunciation
en /ˈɛnɹɛm/ /ˈɛnɑːiːˌɛm/ UK
Noun
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en medicine mostly attributive Non-rapid eye movement, non-REM; designating the stage or stages of sleep when there is no dreaming and brain activity is reduced. from 20th c.
en 2017 Matthew Walker (scientist) Matthew Walker Why We Sleep 45 Penguin 2018 [A] key function of deep NREM sleep, which predominates early in the night, is to do the work of weeding out and removing unnecessary neural connections.
Antonyms
en REM
Further reading
Non-rapid eye movement sleep