delta wave

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noun Physiology.

any of the slow brain waves constituting delta rhythm.

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Origin of delta wave

First recorded in 1935–40

Words nearby delta wave

delta ray, delta rhythm, Deltasone, delta stock, Delta team, delta wave, delta wing, deltiology, deltoid, deltoidal, deltoid ligament

How to use delta wave in a sentence

This summer, the delta wave of the pandemic hit a scary number of Americans, including children.
What are the lessons Republicans learned from the Virginia and New Jersey elections?|Amber Phillips|November 4, 2021|Washington Post
Data presented to the FDA by Israeli public health officials last week suggested that the country’s Pfizer booster campaign helped curb a delta wave.
Can I get a COVID booster shot? And everything else you need to know.|Philip Kiefer|October 24, 2021|Popular-Science
That finding echoes a smaller study by the Mayo Clinic Health System in August, not yet peer-reviewed, which also showed the Moderna vaccine to be more effective than Pfizer-BioNTech at preventing infections during the delta wave.
Unvaccinated people were 11 times more likely to die of covid-19, CDC report finds|Lena H. Sun, Joel Achenbach|September 10, 2021|Washington Post
The anesthetic ketamine can excite the brain, resulting in alternating alpha and delta waves.
The hunt for hidden signs of consciousness in unreachable patients|Russ Juskalian|August 25, 2021|MIT Technology Review

Standard EEG patterns include fast alpha waves, oscillating about 10 times a second and common in consciousness, and slow delta waves, oscillating about once per second and common in nondreaming sleep or under anesthesia.
The hunt for hidden signs of consciousness in unreachable patients|Russ Juskalian|August 25, 2021|MIT Technology Review
Thus it attracted a wave of cowboy operators to fly passengers and cargo between cities.
Who Will Get AsiaAir 8501’s Black Boxes?|Clive Irving|December 30, 2014|DAILY BEAST
There have been previous waves of people moving to Texas, and we are now experiencing the latest wave.
Will Texas Stay Texan?|David Fontana|December 29, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The army has since conducted a brutal wave of jailings against activists and journalists.
Behind Bars for the Holidays: 11 Political Prisoners We Want to See Free In 2015|Movements.Org|December 25, 2014|DAILY BEAST
When Tonie Tobias started at Delta in 1996 she was shy and closeted.
How A Company’s Support of Gay Employees Helped One of Them To Come Out||December 24, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Delta was a sponsor of the HRC dinner here in Atlanta and I went and met her there.
How A Company’s Support of Gay Employees Helped One of Them To Come Out||December 24, 2014|DAILY BEAST
But to wave this discourse of Heathens, how many self-contradicting principles are there held among Christians?
The Life and Most Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner (1801)|Daniel Defoe
The wave-like movement of these animals is particularly graceful and cleverly done.
Women in the fine arts, from the Seventh Century B.C. to the Twentieth Century A.D.|Clara Erskine Clement
While you were admiring the long roll of the wave, a sudden spray would be dashed over you, and make you catch your breath!
Music-Study in Germany|Amy Fay
"Yes," said Punch, lifted up in his father's arms to wave good-bye.
Kipling Stories and Poems Every Child Should Know, Book II|Rudyard Kipling
"I've brought ye thet Injun I wuz tellin' ye uv," she said, with a wave of her hand toward Alessandro.
Ramona|Helen Hunt Jackson

Medical definitions for delta wave

delta wave

A slurring of the R-wave upstroke in an electrocardiogram as seen in Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome.

delta rhythm