PGO
PGO noun: a spike of electrical activity in the brain that moves from pons to geniculate nucleus to occipital lobe at the onset of REM sleep.
Noun
PGO (countable and uncountable, plural PGOs)
- A spike of electrical activity in the brain that moves from pons to geniculate nucleus to occipital lobe at the onset of REM sleep.
- Impulses in the PGO generators can be triggered by any of these inputs through direct excitation or postinhibitory rebound excitation.2010, Robert Stickgold, Matthew P. Walker, The Neuroscience of Sleep, →ISBN, page 28
- The result is consistent with the idea that PGO is interacting with an amino acid residue that lies in the vicinity of the phosphorylation site, Aspas.2012, Shoichi Imai, Makoto Endo, Iwao Ohtsuki, Muscle Physiology and Biochemistry, →ISBN, page 172
Forms of PGO
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Origin of PGO
Short for ponto-geniculo-occipital wave.
Questions about PGO
- What does PGO mean?
- PGO means a spike of electrical activity in the brain that moves from pons to geniculate nucleus to occipital lobe at the onset of REM sleep.
- What part of speech is PGO?
- PGO is a noun.
- What is the plural of PGO?
- The plural of PGO is PGOs.
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