The temporal bases of medicine: short notions of chronobiology.
The experimental observation has clarified that the majority of biological functions show a pattern of periodic type. Chronobiology was born as the discipline devoted to investigate the periodicity in biological phenomena, Time being regarded as a systematic variable of the dynamism in living matter. The present article provides short notions of this discipline, regarding the classification and meaning of biological rhythms, and concerning the methods for analyzing the periodicity in biosystems.
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D002909:Chronobiology Phenomena; D015510:Clinical Medicine / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D008433:Mathematics