Definitions
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- adjective Of or relating to
hypersomnia —excessive sleepiness.
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Examples
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Despite the common misconception, most narcoleptic patients are not truly “hypersomniac”—that is, the amount of sleep they get each twenty-four-hour period is actually normal or nearly normal, and their sleep is not unusually deep.
Solve Your Child’s Sleep Problems M.D. Richard Ferber 2006
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Despite the common misconception, most narcoleptic patients are not truly “hypersomniac”—that is, the amount of sleep they get each twenty-four-hour period is actually normal or nearly normal, and their sleep is not unusually deep.
Solve Your Child’s Sleep Problems M.D. Richard Ferber 2006
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Enlargement of E showing the presence in the SLD of a large number of Fos Activated GABAergic neurons in the vlPAG / DpMe region after paradoxical sleep deprivation and hypersomnia (Fos immunohistochemistry combined with GAD67 mRNA Number of GABAergic activated neurons in Control, Paradoxical sleep deprived or hypersomniac rats.
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