circadian rhythm

  • 1Circadian rhythm — Circadian redirects here. For the album by the rock band 5th Projekt, see Circadian (album). Some features of the human circadian biological clock A circadian rhythm, popularly referred to as body clock, is an endogenously driven, roughly 24 hour …

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  • 2circadian rhythm — circadian rhythm. См. циркадный ритм. (Источник: «Англо русский толковый словарь генетических терминов». Арефьев В.А., Лисовенко Л.А., Москва: Изд во ВНИРО, 1995 г.) …

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  • 3circadian rhythm — Inherent cycle of approximately 24 hours in length that appears to control or initiate various biological processes, including sleep, wakefulness, and digestive and hormonal activity. The natural signal for the circadian pattern is the change… …

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  • 4Circadian rhythm sleep disorder — Classification and external resources ICD 10 G47.2 ICD 9 327.3 …

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  • 5Circadian Rhythm (film) — This article is about the thriller movie. For the biological function, see Circadian rhythm. Circadian Rhythm is a movie that focuses on a young woman and her radical journey to discover who she is and to find out why multiple enemies want her… …

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  • 6circadian rhythm sleep disorder — [DSM IV] a sleep disorder of the dyssomnia group, consisting of a lack of synchrony between the schedule of sleeping and waking required by the external environment and that of a person s own circadian rhythm. It usually has an environmental… …

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  • 7circadian rhythm — noun The internal body clock that regulates the (roughly) 24 hour cycle of biological processes in animals and plants. See Also: circadian …

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  • 8circadian rhythm — Regular cycle of behaviour with a period of approximately 24 hours. In most animals the endogenous periodicity, which may be of longer or shorter duration, is entrained to 24h by environmental cues. See periodic and timeless …

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  • 9circadian rhythm — the regular recurrence in cycles of approximately 24 hours from one point to another, such as with certain biological activities that recur regardless of long periods of darkness or other changes in environmental conditions …

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  • 10circadian rhythm — (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) n. biorhythm, cycles, body clock …

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