meaning of inhibition
1. The act of inhibiting, or the state of being inhibited; restraint; prohibition; embargo.
2. 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. ; as, the inhibition of the respiratory center by the pneumogastric nerve; the inhibition of reflexes, etc.
3. A writ from a higher court forbidding an inferior judge from further proceedings in a cause before; esp. , a writ issuing from a higher ecclesiastical court to an inferior one, on appeal.
4. 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
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