bathyphase
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bathyphase (plural bathyphases)
- (physiology) The time period in a cycle during which the cycle is low, especially the lower part of a sine wave fitted to a measurement of a circadian pattern or other biological rhythm.
- The bathyphase of the metabolic process ran from late evening until shortly after the subject awoke, with the lowest point recorded in at three o'clock in the morning.
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- Refinetti, Roberto (2006). Circadian Physiology. CRC Press/Taylor & Francis Group. →ISBN. Lay summary