Definitions
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- Monophase; single-phase.
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- adjective of, related to or affected with
monophasia - adjective having a single
phase
Etymologies
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Examples
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Most human societies adopt a single, “monophasic” sleep, but deep-water sailors work best under shorter, uninterrupted “polyphasic” periods ranging from 30 minutes to two hours.
A Furnace Afloat JOE JACKSON 2003
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Neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorders (NMOSD) are severe central nervous system inflammatory demyelinating disorders (CNS IDD) characterized by monophasic or relapsing, longitudinally extensive transverse myelitis (LETM) and/or optic neuritis (ON).
BioMed Central - Latest articles Koon Chan 2010
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(A monophasic sleep pattern would be your typical eight-hour block of sleep every 24 hours.)
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Breast kinds sponsored in proximal or monophasic oral lamactal fights tend to send safer advanced ago than in never-users. 34-37, 45, 46 cohort samples have promoted the minimal heartburn alesse to maintain truly lower, about 3 for parenteral hyperlipidemias
Wii-volution 2010
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So maybe you shouldn't trust me on this one, but in the third week of Uberman, I swear I achieved a level of alertness and physical wellbeing that was not that much different from the good old monophasic days.
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We do know that about ten years ago people started the major churn of monophasic to biphasic.
Healthcare Sector and Stocks Analysis from Seeking Alpha 2009
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The should properly pull withdrawn when you are monophasic or suspect you may monohydrate pregnant.
Digital Point Forums 2009
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I'm glad I did the experiment, since polyphasic sleep was an incredible thing to experience, but I'm also glad that I returned to monophasic sleep.
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™ is a combined oral contraceptive COC tablet containing a unique monophasic combination of 2 steroid hormones; 17-beta estradiol, an estrogen that is structurally identical to the major estrogen produced by the ovaries of healthy non-pregnant women, and nomegestrol acetate, a highly selective progesterone-derived progestin.
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Recently Uploaded Slideshows cksheng74 2009
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For some reason we have decided that a single episode of sleep without waking (“monophasic” sleep), is normal.
The big idea: have we been getting sleep all wrong? Russell Foster 2022
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