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- noun medicine The
clinical study andtreatment ofsleep disorders andirregularities .
Etymologies
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somno- + -logy
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After his private animal psychiatry practice in Munich had gone bankrupt five years ago, Dr. Schwarmen had switched to somnology and began treating sleep-disordered patients all over the world via telephone.
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trivet commented on the word somnology
The study of sleep.
March 6, 2007