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  • Abdominal Movement
  • Absence, typical (Classical or petit mal absence)
  • Acrophase
  • Action tremor
  • Active sleep
  • Activity (also activity episode)
  • Activity onset
  • Adenosine
  • Adrenal
  • Advanced Sleep Phase Syndrome
  • Airflow Limitation (Flow Limitation)
  • Alpha Sleep
  • Alpha-Delta Sleep
  • Ambulatory Monitor
  • Amines, biogenic
  • Amitriptyline
  • Amphetamine sulphate
  • Amplitude
  • Analog computer
  • Antidepressant
  • Apnea
  • Apnea Index
  • Apnea/Hypopnea Index
  • Arousal
  • Arousal Disorder
  • Arousal epilepsy
  • Arousal Threshold
  • Arrhythmia
  • Asymmetry
  • Atonia
  • Atropine
  • Auto Adjusting Continuous Positive Airway Pressure Device (SmartPAP)
  • Automatism
  • Awakening

    Asymmetry

    1. Of a wave or deflection: Unequal amplitude on either side of a baseline; 2. Of a record: Significant difference in amplitude or frequency of two traces taken simultaneously from the two hemispheres under identical conditions of recordings.4

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