"PGO" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "Short for ponto-geniculo-occipital wave.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "PGOs",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "PGO (countable and uncountable, plural PGOs)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
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        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
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        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2010, Robert Stickgold, Matthew P. Walker, The Neuroscience of Sleep, page 28",
          "text": "Impulses in the PGO generators can be triggered by any of these inputs through direct excitation or postinhibitory rebound excitation.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Shoichi Imai, Makoto Endo, Iwao Ohtsuki, Muscle Physiology and Biochemistry, page 172",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, Leslie Iversen, Drugs, Neurotransmitters, and Behavior, page 265",
          "text": "The study of PGO activity (which was described in the first part of this paper) belongs to a very specialized field of sleep physiology.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A spike of electrical activity in the brain that moves from pons to geniculate nucleus to occipital lobe at the onset of REM sleep."
      ],
      "id": "en-PGO-en-noun-NUa1kE95",
      "links": [
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          "spike",
          "spike"
        ],
        [
          "electrical",
          "electrical"
        ],
        [
          "activity",
          "activity"
        ],
        [
          "brain",
          "brain"
        ],
        [
          "pons",
          "pons"
        ],
        [
          "geniculate nucleus",
          "geniculate nucleus"
        ],
        [
          "occipital lobe",
          "occipital lobe"
        ],
        [
          "REM",
          "REM"
        ],
        [
          "sleep",
          "sleep"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
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        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "PGO"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "Short for ponto-geniculo-occipital wave.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "PGOs",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
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      },
      "expansion": "PGO (countable and uncountable, plural PGOs)",
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  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
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        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncountable nouns"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2010, Robert Stickgold, Matthew P. Walker, The Neuroscience of Sleep, page 28",
          "text": "Impulses in the PGO generators can be triggered by any of these inputs through direct excitation or postinhibitory rebound excitation.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Shoichi Imai, Makoto Endo, Iwao Ohtsuki, Muscle Physiology and Biochemistry, page 172",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, Leslie Iversen, Drugs, Neurotransmitters, and Behavior, page 265",
          "text": "The study of PGO activity (which was described in the first part of this paper) belongs to a very specialized field of sleep physiology.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A spike of electrical activity in the brain that moves from pons to geniculate nucleus to occipital lobe at the onset of REM sleep."
      ],
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        ],
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        ],
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          "activity",
          "activity"
        ],
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          "brain",
          "brain"
        ],
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          "pons",
          "pons"
        ],
        [
          "geniculate nucleus",
          "geniculate nucleus"
        ],
        [
          "occipital lobe",
          "occipital lobe"
        ],
        [
          "REM",
          "REM"
        ],
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          "sleep",
          "sleep"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
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      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "PGO"
}