Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

pgo

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.64 in modern English

Syllables: pgo
IPA

6

Scrabble Score

3

Letters

1

Syllables

3

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A spike of electrical activity in the brain that moves from pons to geniculate nucleus to occipital lobe at the onset of REM sleep.

Countable; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"Impulses in the PGO generators can be triggered by any of these inputs through direct excitation or postinhibitory rebound excitation."
"The result is consistent with the idea that PGO is interacting with an amino acid residue that lies in the vicinity of the phosphorylation site, Aspas."
"The study of PGO activity (which was described in the first part of this paper) belongs to a very specialized field of sleep physiology."

Etymology

Short for ponto-geniculo-occipital wave.

Usage

Inflected Forms

PGOs (plural)

Questions

What does pgo mean?: A spike of electrical activity in the brain that moves from pons to geniculate nucleus to occipital lobe at the onset of REM sleep.
Where does pgo come from?: Short for ponto-geniculo-occipital wave.

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