Definition of chronobiology in English:
chronobiology
noun ˌkrɒnəʊbʌɪˈɒlədʒiˌkränōˌbīˈäləjē
mass nounThe branch of biology concerned with cyclical physiological phenomena.
Example sentencesExamples
- Night fears are justified: chronobiology, the study of how the time of day affects the body's functions, is beginning to show that many diseases become worse at night.
- In the lexicon of chronobiology, the science of body time, Dave is an owl and I'm a lark, and learning how to deal with the difference can turn you into a top performer.
- Some education in sleep medicine and chronobiology occurs in undergraduate medical education, and additional curricular efforts to expand this exposure are underway at these levels of training.
- This superbly edited, richly illustrated book would be properly employed as a textbook for courses focused on chronobiology.
- A promising new theory applies chronobiology based on a time-dependent or chronotherapeutic approach to pain assessment and intervention.
Derivatives
noun
Chronobiologists have since progressed from describing biological timekeeping in nearly all types of living things to identifying the structures and processes associated with it, including the biochemical and molecular genetic mechanisms responsible for it.
Example sentencesExamples
- ‘Everyone knows how to tell time, but few people know how to tell body time,’ says Michael Smolensky, Ph.D., a chronobiologist, University of Texas-Houston professor and co-author of The Body Clock Guide to Better Health.
- Our study supports the beliefs of many chronobiologists or body clock scientists, who have suggested that if we don't listen to our body clock we won't perform as effectively.
- He is renowned for going to bed early and snoozing for eight hours; he's a chronobiologist's dream.
- For the first five weeks MacArthur averaged 5.54 hours sleep a day; for the past 10 days she's been down to less than four, though she has been taught techniques to help her catnap by Claudio Stampi, a ‘chronobiologist’.