Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. One that inhibits, as a substance that retards or stops a chemical reaction.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. See inhibiter.
Wiktionary
- n. chemistry Any substance capable of stopping or slowing a specific chemical reaction.
- n. biology Any substance capable of stopping or slowing a specific biological process
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. That which causes inhibitory action; esp., an inhibitory nerve.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a substance that retards or stops an activity
Examples
“Yes, indeed, guns are fired before leaving the factory and a rust inhibitor is often applied to the exterior and the bore after testfire.”
“At a given signal, the APC labels an inhibitor of a certain protein-degrading enzyme, whereupon the inhibitor is carried to the proteasome and destroyed.”
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2004 - Information for the Public
“In 1970, I had begun work on the basic pancreatic trypsin inhibitor which has later become the model compound for the development of protein NMR, molecular dynamics, and experimental folding studies in other laboratories.”
“Steigemann (also one of Huber's Ph.D. students at that time) on the crystallographic refinement of the structure of bovine pancreatic trypsin inhibitor was a success, and our 1975 paper in”
“Although some of the ribozymes exhibited high levels of cleavage activity in vitro, none appears to be a potential long term inhibitor in cellulo.”
“In an attempt to copy the Ultra Hair Away process, some of these low cost imitators have tried to combine a hair removal depilatory with a so-called "inhibitor" - in these cases the "inhibitor" does not work because of the harmful effects of the depilatory.”
“(although the proprietary Kindle format might be a short-term inhibitor).”
“Saxagliptin is a DPP-4 inhibitor, which is designed to work by increasing the level of so-called incretin hormones in the body that help lower blood-glucose levels.”
The Wall Street Journal: FDA Extends Review of Diabetes Drug Saxagliptin
“Earlier this year, a regulatory panel voted against the approval of Arcoxia, Merck's follow-on Cox-2 inhibitor, which is sold abroad.”
“Keyomarsi noted that these patients can be treated with a CDK2 inhibitor, which is now clinically available.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘inhibitor’.
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SCIE - EU nomenclature
All the scientific words found in the official EU nomenclature. For the screening I used Vocabgrabber of the Visual Thesaurus.
abdominal, absorbent, accelerator, accumulator, acebutolol, acetamide, acetanilide, acetate, acetic acid, acetone, acetous, acetyl and 1171 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11250 more...
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IMCO - EU nomenclature
includes words of the "Prodcom list"
abaca, abdominal, abrasive, absorbent, absorber, accelerator, accessory, account book, accumulator, acebutolol, acetaldehyde, acetamide and 4515 more...
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cindywrites's Words
chiaroscuro, mollycoddle, feckless, evocative, provocative, invocation, beckon, allay, becalm, console, lull, soothe and 479 more...
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Heroes
Powers revealed so far on the show Heroes
flying, radiation, clairvoyance, telekinesis, time travel, mimic, mimicking, strength, healing, suggestion, illusion, inhibitor and 5 more...
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catalyst, vinyl, sythesis, straightforward, sincere, purify, pseudo, inhibitor, exasperate, endeavor, conception, conceive and 19 more...
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