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What does inhibition mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word inhibition? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. The act of inhibiting.
  2. (psychology) A personal feeling of fear or embarrassment that stops one behaving naturally.
  3. (chemistry) The process of stopping or retarding a chemical reaction.
  4. (law) A writ from a higher court to an inferior judge to stay proceedings.
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High levels of cortisol contribute to lower levels of testosterone and inhibition of dominant or territorial behaviors.
Blood vessel dilation is due to blockage of calcium channels in smooth muscle cells or inhibition of sodium-calcium ion exchange.
The inhibition of proteinases by protein proteinase inhibitors is an individual case of protein-protein interaction.
As a personal poet, he attacked enemies by name and described without inhibition his own amatory exploits.
Classically, diagnosis of dengue virus infection was carried out by haemagglutination inhibition test.
Fluorouracil induces apoptosis by inhibition of the enzyme thymidylate synthase during DNA replication.

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