deep sleep
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English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]deep sleep (countable and uncountable, plural deep sleeps)
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see deep, sleep.
- (medicine) stage 3 of non-rapid eye movement sleep
- Synonyms: slow-wave sleep, cataphor
- (rare, fiction) Artificially induced hibernation in humans for the purpose of long distance space travel.
Translations
[edit]medicine: state of sleep
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See also
[edit]- deep sleep on Wikipedia.Wikipedia