Definition of inhibition
- 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.