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inhibition

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The act of inhibiting, or the state of being inhibited; restraint; prohibition; embargo.

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.

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.

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they were restrained by a prohibition in their charter Source: Internet

a medical inhibition of alcoholic beverages Source: Internet

he ignored his parents' forbiddance Source: Internet

the inhibition of the heart by the vagus nerve Source: Internet

According to Richard Reynold, the mariner is "forced by the urgency of his mission to shed one inhibition after another." Source: Internet

Active NF-κB induces the expression of anti-apoptotic genes such as Bcl-2, resulting in inhibition of apoptosis. Source: Internet

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