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entrainment

n. the process of activating or providing a timing cue for a biological rhythm. For example, the production of gonadal hormones in seasonally breeding animals can be a result of entrainment to increasing day length. The timing of circadian rhythms can be due to entrainment to either sunrise or sunset. See brainwave entrainment.

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Werdnig–Hoffmann disease

Werdnig–Hoffmann disease

see spinal muscular atrophy. [Guido Werdnig (1862–1919), Austrian neurologist; Johann Hoffmann (1857–1919), German neurologist]