chronotherapy

[ kron-uh-ther-uh-pee, kroh-nuh- ]

nounMedicine/Medical.
  1. a treatment for insomnia in which a person's normal cycle of waking and sleeping is altered.

Origin of chronotherapy

1
First recorded in 1975–80; chrono- + therapy

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