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A substance that retards or stops an activity
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inhibitor
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n. 1 (context chemistry English) Any substance capable of stopping or slowing a specific chemical reaction. 2 (context biology English) Any substance capable of stopping or slowing a specific biological process
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Inhibitor or inhibition may refer to:
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1868 in scientific use (earlier as a Scottish legal term), agent noun in Latin form from inhibit .
WordNet
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n. a substance that retards or stops an activity [ant: activator ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Inhibitor \In*hib"i*tor\, n. [NL.] That which causes inhibitory action; esp., an inhibitory nerve.
Usage examples of inhibitor.
He noticed the older antidepressants like amitriptyline decreased psychic ability, while the newer serotonin reuptake inhibitors were either neutral or they enhanced it.
The reports of the amnestic effects of protein synthesis inhibitors were first ignored, often on the same sorts of a priori grounds that had led to my initial scepticism, and only after some struggle accepted by these definers of the field.
From half an hour after training, to as long as twenty-four hours afterwards, it was possible to detect an increase in protein synthesis in the brain regions containing IMHV - a result which of course squared with the known amnestic effects of the inhibitors of protein synthesis.
In a similar fashion, amylase inhibitors in raw red kidney beans and navy beans make their carbohydrate content unusable.
The bullet she would fire contained frozen sodium azide, a metabolic inhibitor.
Pharmaceutical companies are trying combinations of nucleoside analogue reverse transcriptase inhibitors, everything from Abacavir to Zidovudine, to hit Rhesus.
Just wondering if they ever taught you anything about monoamine oxidase inhibitors.
HMO doctor prescribed him an ancient and dubious monoamine oxidase inhibitor.
Gray found fear of death and then went to worl on finding the chemicals that would induce the brain to make its own inhibitors.
This material could not be kept for any length of time near the scene of the work, since it tended to polymerize at ordinary temperatures even with the inhibitor present.
If I can only contrive a way to place some protease inhibitor II into my small intestine, my CCK will rise and my appetite will disappear.
And they ate 17 percent less at lunch than when they drank the same soup without protease inhibitor II.
Christopher Nelson told me that a gram of protease inhibitor II would cost ninety-five dollars and take eight weeks to arrive.
Protease inhibitors bind to the active site of the viral protease enzyme and disrupt viral protein processing.
Chow arrived four months after I had my first shot of telomerase inhibitor, two months after my tumors started shrinking and I began to think I might have some kind of chance.