Cugini P
Università degli Studi La Sapienza, Rome, Italy.
Ann Ist Super Sanita. 1993;29(4):483-500.
Chronobiology is a discipline whose principles consider time as an essential dimension of biological phenomena. The reason of this resides in a relativistic vision of biological dynamism for which space, mass, energy and time are properties of dynamic events. Biological time may be linear (chronological time) and cyclical (period time). Chronobiology considers the biological events whose expression is periodic with several kinds of periodicities (biological rhythms). Because of bioperiodic events, a methodology for approaching cycling functions is needed. Chronobiometry is illustrated as an important part for understanding how biological rhythms can be investigated.
时间生物学是一门其原理将时间视为生物现象的一个基本维度的学科。其原因在于对生物动态性的一种相对论观点，即空间、质量、能量和时间是动态事件的属性。生物时间可以是线性的（ chronological time ）和循环的（周期时间）。时间生物学研究其表达具有多种周期性（生物节律）的生物事件。由于生物周期性事件，需要一种研究循环功能的方法。时间生物测定法被视为理解如何研究生物节律的一个重要部分。
