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deep sleep

deep sleep

the stage of the sleep cycle in which arousal thresholds are highest and consciousness is taken to be least likely. In electroencephalography, deep sleep is commonly defined by a predominance of slow, high-amplitude waveforms. See delta wave; slow-wave sleep.

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