slow-wave sleep

slow-wave sleep
/sloh"wayv"/, Physiol.
a recurrent period of deep sleep, typically totaling five or six hours a night, distinguished by the presence of slow brain waves and by very little dreaming. Also called S sleep. Cf. REM sleep.
[1965-70]

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