inhibition

inhibition has 7 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 10.

Definitions

• n.. The act of inhibiting, or the state of being inhibited; restraint; prohibition; embargo.
• n.. 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.
• n.. 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.
• n.. 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"
• n.. (psychology) the conscious exclusion of unacceptable thoughts or desires
• n.. the quality of being inhibited
• n.. (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"