{i} holding back, restraint; repression of a psychological process; stopping or checking of the function of a bodily organ; writ sent from a higher court to a lower court halting legal proceedings
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
Electronic procedure for fine tuning a quartz watch without modifying the specific frequency of the quartz, periodically (every 60 seconds) adapts the moment of electrical impulse to the motor, correcting the display
An order against the Defender preventing him disposing of heritable property in his name
Process of decreasing the probability that a neuron will be electrochemically excited
Inhibitions are feelings of fear or embarrassment that make it difficult for you to behave naturally. The whole point about dancing is to stop thinking and lose all your inhibitions. In enzymology, a phenomenon in which a compound (an inhibitor), usually similar in structure to the substance on which an enzyme acts (substrate), interacts with the enzyme so that the resulting complex cannot undergo the usual reaction or cannot form the usual product. The inhibitor may function by combining with the enzyme at the site at which the reaction usually occurs (competitive inhibition) or at another site (noncompetitive inhibition). See also allosteric control, feedback inhibition, repression. In psychology, the conscious or unconscious suppression of free or spontaneous thought or behaviour through the operation of psychological impediments, including internalized social controls. Inhibition serves useful social functions such as protecting oneself and others from harm and enabling the delay of gratification from pleasurable activities. Both extreme lack of inhibition and excessive inhibition can be personally destructive. Inhibition also plays an important role in learning, since an organism must learn to restrain certain instinctual behaviours or previously learned patterns in order to master new patterns. In physiological psychology, inhibition refers to the suppression of neural electrical activity
One of the responses caused by specific neurotransmitters binding to receptors on a neuron Inhibition decreases the probability that neurotransmitters will be released by the neuron
the action of prohibiting or inhibiting or forbidding (or an instance thereof); "they were restrained by a prohibition in their charter"; "a medical inhibition of alcoholic beverages"; "he ignored his parents' forbiddance"
as, the inhibition of the respiratory center by the pneumogastric nerve; the inhibition of reflexes, etc
The prevention or reduction of the functioning of an organ, muscle etc by the action of certain nerve impulses
A writ from a higher court forbidding an inferior judge from further proceedings in a cause before; esp
the process whereby a polymer is made flame-retardant by interrupting the cycle of combustion
A neural process that reduces the conductivity of certain synapses so that some impulses are blocked Inhibition performs an important function by reducing excess neural activity Unlike in other fields of psychology, the neurologic term "inhibition" does not have a negative connotation
Pavlov's idea that presentation of the CS without the UCS activates a central inhibitory state that suppresses the CR
The act of inhibiting, or the state of being inhibited; restraint; prohibition; embargo
(psychology) the conscious exclusion of unacceptable thoughts or desires the quality of being inhibited (physiology) the process whereby nerves can retard or prevent the functioning of an organ or part; "the inhibition of the heart by the vagus nerve
The tendency of early successional species to resist the invasion of later species
A response suppression caused by factors such as fatigue and extinction (Anderson)
Latent inhibition is a process by which exposure to a stimulus, of little or no consequence, prevents conditioned associations with that stimulus being formed. The ability to disregard or even inhibit formation of memory, by preventing associative learning of observed stimuli, is an automatic response and is thought to prevent information overload. Latent inhibition is observed in many species, and is believed to be an integral part of the observation/learning process, to allow the 'self' to interact successfully in a social environment
A cellular control mechanism in which an enzyme that catalyzes the production of a particular substance in the cell is inhibited when that substance has accumulated to a certain level, thereby balancing the amount provided with the amount needed. Suppression of the activity of an enzyme by a product of the sequence of reactions in which the enzyme is participating. When the product accumulates in a cell beyond an optimal amount, it decreases its own production by inhibiting an enzyme involved in its synthesis. After the product has been used or broken down, inhibition is relaxed and formation of the product resumes. Enzymes whose ability to catalyze a reaction depends on molecules other than the substances on which they act directly are said to be under allosteric control
a method of behavior therapy based on the inhibition of one response by the occurrence of another response that is mutually incompatible with it; a relaxation response might be conditioned to a stimulus that previously evoked anxiety