sleep deprivation en · NOUN
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(uncountable) The condition of being kept awake and not getting enough sleep (as forcibly by someone else, or by a disorder), to the point of noticeably lower alertness.
Growing evidence has accumulated over the last two decades and revealed that a number of sleep traits in humans are heritable, such as timing of sleep, total daily sleep requirement, response to sleep deprivation, and various EEG measurements/patterns.
2017 June 1, Guangsen Shi, David Wu, Louis J. Ptáček, Ying-Hui Fu, “Human genetics and sleep behavior”, in Current Opinion in Neurobiology, volume 44, number 3, →DOI, pages 43–49:Sleep deprivation can lead to fatal vehicular accidents.
Relateds
lack of sleep · insomnia · sleep disorder · sleep debt · undersleep · sleep-deprived
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de Schlafentzug (condition of forcibly being kept awake) · hu alvásmegvonás (condition of forcibly being kept awake) · fi univaje (condition of forcibly being kept awake) · pl deprywacja snu (condition of forcibly being kept awake) · cmn 失眠 (condition of forcibly being kept awake) · ru депривация сна (condition of forcibly being kept awake) · hu alváshiány (condition of forcibly being kept awake) · fr privation de sommeil (condition of forcibly being kept awake) · fr manque de sommeil (condition of forcibly being kept awake) · cmn 睡眠不足 (condition of forcibly being kept awake)