NREM
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English
Etymology
Initialism of non-rapid eye movement.
Pronunciation
Noun
NREM (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.
- 2017, Matthew Walker, Why We Sleep, Penguin, published 2018, page 45:
- 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
Further reading
Non-rapid eye movement sleep on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
