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inhibition medical definition
noun
- The act of inhibiting or the state of being inhibited.
- Something that restrains, blocks, or suppresses.
- The conscious or unconscious restraint of a behavioral process, a desire, or an impulse.
- Any of a variety of processes that are associated with the gradual attenuation, masking, and extinction of a previously conditioned response.
- The condition in which or the process by which a reaction is inhibited.
- The condition in which or the process by which an enzyme is inhibited.
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