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US
/sɝˈkeɪdiən/
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[ UK /sɜːkˈeɪdiən/ ]
[ UK /sɜːkˈeɪdiən/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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of or relating to biological processes occurring at 24-hour intervals
circadian rhythms
How To Use circadian In A Sentence
- In mammals, including humans, a master clock in the brain and subordinate clocks found in organs throughout the body coordinate daily, or circadian, rhythms of behavior and physiology.
- The SCN has long been implicated in the circadian rhythmicity of wheel running, and the High-Runner mice display a shorter free-running circadian period than Control mice under both constant light and constant dark.
- The more regular your schedule, the easier it is to retrain your circadian rhythm in a twenty-four-hour time period.
- Failure to synchronize your patterns of activity and stimulation with your body's natural circadian and ultradian rhythms puts a stress on the system.
- But seriously, there really are observations of circadian activity in arctic reindeer that suggest something interesting is going on in reindeer brains in midwinter and midsummer.
- All blood samples were obtained between 0830 and 0930 h to keep to a minimum the spontaneous circadian variation of fibrinolytic system.
- That is, the hands of the circadian clock are moved forward or backwards.
- In the eating at night experiments with mice, what the scientists were trying to determing is how biorhythms, chronobiology, and circadian inner clocks influence eating habilts. You'll have a greatly increased risk of weight gain if you eat at night
- While discussing the mechanisms underlying circadian rhythms, it would be well worth mentioning their genetic basis.
- Berndt A, Kottke T, Breitkreuz H, Dvorsky R, Hennig S, et al. (2007) A novel photoreaction mechanism for the circadian blue light photoreceptor PLoS Biology: New Articles