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Nrem

//ˈɛnɹɛm// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Non-rapid eye movement, non-REM; designating the stage or stages of sleep when there is no dreaming and brain activity is reduced. attributive, uncountable

    "[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."

  2. 2
    a recurring sleep state during which rapid eye movements do not occur and dreaming does not occur; accounts for about 75% of normal sleep time wordnet

Etymology

Initialism of non-rapid eye movement.

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