Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Inhibiting or tending to inhibit; holding back; curbing, restraining, or repressing; checking or stopping.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Of or pertaining to, or producing, inhibition; consisting in inhibition; tending or serving to inhibit.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. restrictive of action
Examples
“Those that make you happy, relaxed, and peaceful are called inhibitory neurotransmitters.”
“Drugs against anxiety act for instance on certain inhibitory ionic channels in the brain.”
“Again, the normal influence of the vaso-motor center may be suspended for a time by what is known as the inhibitory or restraining effect.”
“Once the appellate judge has ascertained that the appellant has legitimately appealed, and that the appeal is not one of those that have only a devolutive effect, he has the right to send to the judge appellee letters called inhibitory, forbidding him to take further action in the case.”
“This has sometimes been attributed to what has been called the inhibitory effect of Christianity on worldly interests.”
“Some kind of inhibitory block, repression of unpleasant events.”
The Striker Portfolio
“An "inhibitory" afferent nerve emerged simply as an afferent nerve whose impulses at certain central loci cause, directly or indirectly, inhibition, while at other central loci the same nerve, probably even the same nerve fibre can produce excitation.”
“Early-activated genes in our system also include negative intracellular regulators of TGFβ signalling, such as inhibitory Smad7”
“Keep in mind the drugs don't cause your body to produce more 'inhibitory' brain messengers.”
“The 'inhibitory' brain messengers are designed to calm and relax the body.”
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