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NREM

UK/ˈɛnɹɛm/

NREM noun: non-rapid eye movement, non-REM; designating the stage or stages of sleep when there is no dreaming and brain activity is reduced.

Noun

NREM (uncountable)

  1. (attributive) Non-rapid eye movement, non-REM; designating the stage or stages of sleep when there is no dreaming and brain activity is reduced.
    • [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.2017, Matthew Walker, Why We Sleep, Penguin, published 2018, page 45

Antonyms of NREM

Origin of NREM

Initialism of non-rapid eye movement.

Questions about NREM

What does NREM mean?
NREM means non-rapid eye movement, non-REM; designating the stage or stages of sleep when there is no dreaming and brain activity is reduced.
What part of speech is NREM?
NREM is a noun.
How do you pronounce NREM?
NREM is pronounced /ˈɛnɹɛm/ (UK).

Words near NREM in the dictionary

  1. NRDC
  2. nrDNA
  3. nrDNAs
  4. NRE
  5. NREL
  6. NREM
  7. NREMT
  8. NREMTs
  9. NRF
  10. Nrf.
  11. NRFB

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