inhibition
抑制,抑制作用,抑制力,抑制性
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Definitions
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- : the act of inhibiting.
- : the state of being inhibited.
- : something that inhibits; constraint.
- : Psychology. the blocking or holding back of one psychological process by another.inappropriate conscious or unconscious restraint or suppression of behavior, as sexual behavior, often due to guilt or fear produced by past punishment, or sometimes considered a dispositional trait.
- : Physiology. a restraining, arresting, or checking of the action of an organ or cell.the reduction of a reflex or other activity as the result of an antagonistic stimulation.a state created at synapses making them less excitable by other sources of stimulation.
- : Chemistry. a stoppage or decrease in the rate of action of a chemical reaction.
- : English Ecclesiastical Law. an order, especially from a bishop, suspending a priest or an incumbent from the performance of duties.
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Examples
Conscious, slow, deep breaths cause sympathoinhibition, or inhibition of the sympathetic nervous system, which is exactly what gets over-excited when you’re anxious or stressed.
The blow keeps you awake and the alcohol lowers your inhibitions.
So the team conducted separate analyses of enzyme activity which found no protease inhibition at all.
Adaptations to responses other than fear may also have built on this coupling of heartbeat and inhibition.
That’s why I like “social inhibition” or “bystander inhibition,” because that tells you what the effect is.
But the author of the more recent and definitive three-volume life, Robert Skidelsky, felt no such inhibition.
In an all-girls class, he says, girls are encouraged to speak up without inhibition.
Hanging can trigger a reflex known as vagal inhibition, which can instantly stop the heart.
Her ADHD subjects were particularly masterful when the talent in question involved a lack of inhibition.
Driven without inhibition or pause, until another hand grasped mine.
No plays should be given during the time of sickness, or during any inhibition ordered at any time by the city authorities.
Physical in the growth of the brain involves, on the mental side, feeble-mindedness and idiocy.