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Inhibition
Inhibition In`hi*bi"tion, n. [L. inhibitio: cf. F.
inhibition.]
1. The act of inhibiting, or the state of being inhibited;
restraint; prohibition; embargo.
2. (Physiol.) A stopping or checking of an already present
action; a restraining of the function of an organ, or an
agent, as a digestive fluid or ferment, etc.; as, the
inhibition of the respiratory center by the pneumogastric
nerve; the inhibition of reflexes, etc.
3. (Law) A writ from a higher court forbidding an inferior
judge from further proceedings in a cause before; esp., a
writ issuing from a higher ecclesiastical court to an
inferior one, on appeal. --Cowell.
Meaning of Inhibition from wikipedia
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Inhibitor or
inhibition may
refer to:
Enzyme inhibitor, a
substance that
binds to...
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resume its function.
Reversible inhibitors produce different types of
inhibition depending on
whether they bind to the enzyme, the enzyme-substrate complex...
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Social inhibition is a
conscious or
subconscious avoidance of a
situation or
social interaction. With a high
level of
social inhibition,
situations are...
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Latent inhibition (LI) is a
technical term in
classical conditioning,
where a
familiar stimulus takes longer to
acquire meaning (as a
signal or conditioned...
- inflammation,
which appears to
decrease with the use of COX-2 inhibitors. The
inhibition of COX-2 is
paramount for the anti-inflammatory and
analgesic function...
- neurobiology,
lateral inhibition is the
capacity of an
excited neuron to
reduce the
activity of its neighbors.
Lateral inhibition disables the spreading...
- biochemistry,
suicide inhibition, also
known as
suicide inactivation or mechanism-based
inhibition, is an
irreversible form of
enzyme inhibition that
occurs when...
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Uncompetitive inhibition (which
Laidler and
Bunting preferred to call anti-competitive
inhibition, but this term has not been
widely adopted) is a type...
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Product inhibition is a type of
enzyme inhibition where the
product of an
enzyme reaction inhibits its production.
Cells utilize product inhibition to regulate...
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Reciprocal inhibition describes the
relaxation of
muscles on one side of a
joint to
accommodate contraction on the
other side. In some
allied health disciplines...
