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slow-wave sleep: Meaning and Definition of

slow'-wave' sleep"

Pronunciation: (slō'wāv'), [key]
— Physiol. Physiol.
  1. a recurrent period of deep sleep, typically totaling five or six hours a night, distinguished by the presence of slow brain waves and by very little dreaming. Also calledCf.
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