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slow-wave sleep
n : a state of deep usu. dreamless sleep that occurs regularly during a normal period of sleep with intervening periods of REM sleep and that is characterized by delta waves and a low level of autonomic physiological activity - called also non-REM sleep , NREM sleep , orthodox sleep , S sleep , synchronized sleep .
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