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inhibitory

[ in-hib-i-tawr-ee ]

adjective

  1. acting to restrain, hinder, arrest, check, or prohibit an action, impulse, etc.:

    These substances are strongly inhibitory for the growth of mycoplasmas and some protozoa.

    Children with weak inhibitory and attentional resources may have great difficulty resisting the influence of marketing.



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Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms

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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of inhibitory1

First recorded in 1490–1500; inhibit ( def ) + -ory 1( def )
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They found that during sleep, both excitatory and inhibitory connections in the brain become weaker, but they do so asymmetrically, making inhibitory connections weaker than excitatory connections, which causes an increase in excitation.

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Digging deeper, she found that the tumor cells have a molecular imbalance: an increased amount of catalytic proteins exceeds the number of inhibitory ones that normally tamp down and localize the former.

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Through transcriptomic analysis, two distinct subpopulations of individuals with schizophrenia were identified, marked by the expression of specific excitatory and inhibitory neuronal cell states.

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The simulated network included key neuron types found in the cortex: one excitatory type and two inhibitory types.

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Rather, it promotes the development of broadly inhibitory antibodies, the researchers report.

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