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Meaning of PGO | Babel Free

Noun CEFR A2

Definitions

A spike of electrical activity in the brain that moves from pons to geniculate nucleus to occipital lobe at the onset of REM sleep.

countable, uncountable

Examples

“Impulses in the PGO generators can be triggered by any of these inputs through direct excitation or postinhibitory rebound excitation.”
“The result is consistent with the idea that PGO is interacting with an amino acid residue that lies in the vicinity of the phosphorylation site, Aspas.”
“The study of PGO activity (which was described in the first part of this paper) belongs to a very specialized field of sleep physiology.”

CEFR level

A2
Elementary
This word is part of the CEFR A2 vocabulary — elementary level.

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