BIOLOGICAL TIME

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Meaning:

The time of various biological processes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Hypernyms ("biological time" is a kind of...):

time (the continuum of experience in which events pass from the future through the present to the past)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "biological time"):

circadian rhythm (a daily cycle of activity observed in many living organisms)

change of life; climacteric; menopause (the time in a woman's life in which the menstrual cycle ends)

climacteric (a period in a man's life corresponding to menopause)

gestation; gestation period (the period during which an embryo develops (about 266 days in humans))

refractory period ((neurology) the time after a neuron fires or a muscle fiber contracts during which a stimulus will not evoke a response)