International Journal of Nursing Education and Research
  • Year: 2019
  • Volume: 7
  • Issue: 1

Circadian Rhythm

Suretech College of Nursing, Nagpur

*Corresponding Author E-mail: dubeysneha176@gmail.com

Online published on 16 March, 2019.

Abstract

The term circadian comes from the Latin CIRCA meaning around and DIEM meaning day. the formal study of biological temporal rhythms, such as daily tidal, weekly seasonal and annual rhythms is chronobiology (1) human biological rhythm are largely determined by genetic coding, with input from the external environment influencing the cyclic effect (2)

Keywords

Circadian rhythm, chronobiology, environment