Biphasic, meaning having two phases, may refer to:
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Phase (matter)
In the physical sciences, a phase is a region of material that is chemically uniform, physically distinct, and (often) mechanically separable. In a system consisting of ice and water in a glass jar, the ice cubes are one phase, the water is a ...
, in the physical sciences, a biphasic system, e.g. one involving liquid water and steam
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Biphasic sleep
Polyphasic sleep is any sleep of multiple periods in the course of 24 hours. Polyphasic usually means more than two periods of sleep, whereas biphasic (or diphasic, bifurcated, or bimodal) sleep, means solely two periods of sleep. Its opposite is ...
, a nap or siesta in addition to the usual sleep episode at night
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Phase (pharmacology)
Drug metabolism is the metabolic breakdown of drugs by living organisms, usually through specialized enzymatic systems. More generally, xenobiotic metabolism (from the Greek xenos "stranger" and biotic "related to living beings") is the set of ...
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Biphasic disease
A biphasic disease is a disease which has two distinct phases or components. In clinically biphasic diseases, the phases are generally chronologically separated. In histopathologically biphasic tumors (also called biplastic tumors), there is neop ...
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Biphasic formulations of oral contraceptive pills
See also
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Biphase (disambiguation)
Biphase or Bi-phase may refer to:
* Biphase modulation, or binary phase-shift keying
* Differential Manchester encoding, also known as Aiken biphase or biphase mark code
* Harvard biphase, used to encode data onto magnetic tape
* Mu-Tron Bi-Phase
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Phase (disambiguation)
Phase or phases may refer to:
Science
*State of matter, or phase, one of the distinct forms in which matter can exist
*Phase (matter), a region of space throughout which all physical properties are essentially uniform
*Phase space, a mathematica ...
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