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entrainment

Synchronization of a biological rhythm by a forcing stimulus such as an environmental time cue (zeitgeber). During entrainment, the frequencies of the two cycles are the same or are integral multiples of each other.

Definition reprinted with permission from Culebras, Antonio, Clinical Handbook of Sleep Disorders, Butterworth-Heinemann

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