| 单词 | rapid eye movement |
| 释义 | > as lemmasrapid eye movement rapid eye movement n. (originally) any type of quick movement of the eyes, esp. saccadic movements; (in later use) spec. quick, jerky movements of the eyes occurring during the deep stage of sleep in which dreaming occurs (frequently attributive in rapid eye movement sleep) (cf. REM n.2). ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > sleep > [noun] > other specific types subetha1398 rapid eye movement1900 dream sleep1902 REM1957 1900 F. Warner Nerv. Syst. Child vii. 146 Cricket cultivates rapid eye-movements, and practice makes an apt cricketer. 1916 Psychol. Bull. 13 422 German and Scandinavian writers are commonly using the descriptive class term ‘saccadic’ to denote the rapid eye-movements for which we have only the arbitrary name of ‘type 1’. 1953 E. Aserinsky & N. Kleitman in Federation Proc. (Federation Amer. Soc. Exper. Biol.) 12 6/2 Rapid eye movements..were observed to appear from 2 to 5 hr...after the onset of sleep in 10 subjects. 1968 Brit. Med. Bull. 24 257/1 There is a reduction in the amplitude of the evoked response during rapid eye-movement sleep as compared with slow wave sleep. 2002 Independent 26 Jan. (Mag.) 18/4 One of the initial stages of sleep—slow wave, or ‘obligatory sleep’, as one sleep expert calls it—lets the brain recharge more than other stages, such as REM (rapid eye movement) sleep. < as lemmas |
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