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Descriptor English: Sleep, REM
Descriptor Spanish: Sueño REM
Descriptor sueño REM
Entry term(s) movimientos rápidos de los ojos
sueño de ondas rápidas
sueño paradójico
sueño rombencefálico
Scope note: Estadio del sueño caracterizado por movimientos rápidos de los ojos y EEG con un patrón rápido de bajo voltaje. Suele asociarse con ensoñación.
Descriptor Portuguese: Sono REM
Descriptor French: Sommeil paradoxal
Entry term(s): Eye Movement, Rapid
Eye Movements, Rapid
Fast Wave Sleep
Fast-Wave Sleep
Movement, Rapid Eye
Movements, Rapid Eye
Paradoxical Sleep
REM Sleep
Rapid Eye Movement
Rapid Eye Movements
Rhombencephalic Sleep
Sleep, Fast Wave
Sleep, Fast-Wave
Sleep, Paradoxical
Sleep, Rhombencephalic
Tree number(s): F02.830.855.796.671
G11.561.803.754.671
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D012895
Scope note: A stage of sleep characterized by rapid movements of the eye and low voltage fast pattern EEG. It is usually associated with dreaming.
Allowable Qualifiers: DE drug effects
ES ethics
GE genetics
IM immunology
PH physiology
RE radiation effects
Previous Indexing: Sleep (1966-1968)
Public MeSH Note: 69
History Note: 69
DeCS ID: 13276
Unique ID: D012895
NLM Classification: WL 108
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 1969/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 2017/06/20
Sleep, REM - Preferred
Concept UI M0019972
Scope note A stage of sleep characterized by rapid movements of the eye and low voltage fast pattern EEG. It is usually associated with dreaming.
Preferred term Sleep, REM
Entry term(s) Fast Wave Sleep
Fast-Wave Sleep
Paradoxical Sleep
REM Sleep
Rhombencephalic Sleep
Sleep, Fast Wave
Sleep, Fast-Wave
Sleep, Paradoxical
Sleep, Rhombencephalic
Rapid Eye Movements - Related but not broader or narrower
Concept UI M0019971
Preferred term Rapid Eye Movements
Entry term(s) Eye Movement, Rapid
Eye Movements, Rapid
Movement, Rapid Eye
Movements, Rapid Eye
Rapid Eye Movement



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