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BIOLOGICAL TIME
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The time of various biological processes
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("biological time" is a kind of...):
time (the continuum of experience in which events pass from the future through the present to the past)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "biological time"):
circadian rhythm (a daily cycle of activity observed in many living organisms)
change of life; climacteric; menopause (the time in a woman's life in which the menstrual cycle ends)
climacteric (a period in a man's life corresponding to menopause)
gestation; gestation period (the period during which an embryo develops (about 266 days in humans))
refractory period ((neurology) the time after a neuron fires or a muscle fiber contracts during which a stimulus will not evoke a response)
