Inhibition /(?)/

In·hi·bi·tion

Inhibition

n.
  1. The act of inhibiting, or the state of being inhibited; restraint; prohibition; embargo.
  2. 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 enzyme, etc.; as, the inhibition of the respiratory center by the pneumogastric nerve; the inhibition of reflexes, etc. (Physiol.)
  3. 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. (Law)
  4. The reduction in rate or stopping of a chemical or biochemical reaction, due to interaction with a chemical agent. (Chem., Biochem.)