NREM
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editInitialism of non-rapid eye movement.
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editNREM (uncountable)
- (medicine, chiefly 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.]
- 2017, Matthew Walker, Why We Sleep, Penguin, published 2018, page 45:
- [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.
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edit- Non-rapid eye movement sleep on Wikipedia.Wikipedia