inhibitory
pronunciation
How to pronounce inhibitory in British English:
UK [ɪn'hɪbɪtərɪ]
How to pronounce inhibitory in American English:
US [ɪn'hɪbɪtərɪ]
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- Adjective:
- restrictive of action
Word Origin
- inhibitory (adj.)
- late 15c., from Medieval Latin inhibitorius, from past participle stem of Latin inhibere (see inhibition).
Example
- 1. Feedback inhibitory mechanisms in endothelial cell growth and .
- 2. Inhibitory activity of endophytic fungi from three plants of opuntia mill .
- 3. To investigate the inhibitory effect of compound huanjing oral liquid on left ventricular hypertrophy of heart failure rats .
- 4. They can mediate either excitatory or inhibitory actions in postsynaptic cells and produce electrical changes in the postsynaptic cell that last from milliseconds to many minutes .
- 5. By contrast , soluble cell compounds produced by just six of the strains proved inhibitory , and only one reduced infectivity by at least 41 percent .