endogenous rhythm

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• internal rhythm — Endogenous rhythm; see circadian …   Dictionary of invertebrate zoology

• Circadian rhythm — Circadian redirects here. For the album by the rock band 5th Projekt, see Circadian (album). Some features of the human circadian biological clock A circadian rhythm, popularly referred to as body clock, is an endogenously driven, roughly 24 hour …   Wikipedia

• Infradian rhythm — An infradian rhythm is a rhythm with a period greater than the period of a circadian rhythm, i.e. with a frequency smaller than one cycle in 28 hours. [Brown, Frederick M. Graeber, R. Curtis, eds.. The Rhythmic Aspects of Behavior. Hillsdale, NJ …   Wikipedia

• circadian rhythm — Regular cycle of behaviour with a period of approximately 24 hours. In most animals the endogenous periodicity, which may be of longer or shorter duration, is entrained to 24h by environmental cues. See periodic and timeless …   Dictionary of molecular biology

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