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  • _ -- An interesting class of phenomena which figure perhaps at all the levels of nervous action now described, may be known as Inhibitory Suggestions.

    The Story of the Mind James Mark Baldwin 1897

  • This article is about the first part, this is known as the Inhibitory techniques.

    MyLinkVault Newest Links 2009

  • Inhibitory pressure of collar (size 17) and waistcoat (5 buttons), two articles of clothing superfluous in the costume of mature males and inelastic to alterations of mass by expansion.

    Ulysses 2003

  • Inhibitory, moreover, was the odd assumption often to be detected in the writings of leading authorities that to view nutritional needs from the standpoint of energetics was not alone more convenient, but more scientific, and even more philosophical, than to discuss them in terms of the material supply.

    Sir Frederick Hopkins - Nobel Lecture 1965

  • To prevent intruders or extruders from withdrawing his mind from the text, he exercises the Inhibitory function of the Attention.

    Assimilative Memory or, How to Attend and Never Forget

  • Directory and Inhibitory functions to co-operate in recalling the entire

    Assimilative Memory or, How to Attend and Never Forget

  • Series, and notice how many distinct and separate times he has exerted the Directory function and how many times the Inhibitory function in reciting a short series.

    Assimilative Memory or, How to Attend and Never Forget

  • To illustrate: In reciting the last training example of one hundred words, the Directory power is exercised and then the Inhibitory power is brought into play, and so on

    Assimilative Memory or, How to Attend and Never Forget

  • Inhibitory fibers to the smooth musculature of the stomach, the small intestine and most of the large intestine are supposed to emerge in the anterior roots of the lower thoracic and upper lumbar nerves.

    IX. Neurology. 7. The Sympathetic Nerves 1918

  • Inhibitory fibers to the descending colon, the rectum and Internal sphincter ani are probably postganglionic fibers from the inferior mesenteric ganglion.

    IX. Neurology. 7. The Sympathetic Nerves 1918

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