Definitions
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- adjective biology Capable of being
entrained , or brought into a specific rhythm
Etymologies
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entrain + -able
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Examples
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FAA also occurs during food deprivation, suggesting that a food-entrainable oscillator (FEO) keeps time in the absence of scheduled feeding.
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Locomotor activity is entrainable by light-dark cycles and by low-amplitude temperature cycles, peaking around the night-day transition and day, respectively.
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Veleri S, Brandes C, Helfrich-Forster C, Hall JC, Stanewsky R (2003) A self-sustaining, light-entrainable circadian oscillator in the Drosophila brain.
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