NREM

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Etymology[edit]

Initialism of non-rapid eye movement.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈɛnɹɛm/, /ˈɛnɑːiːˌɛm/

Noun[edit]

NREM (uncountable)

  1. (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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