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Example sentences for "inhibitory"

Lexicographically close words:
inhibited; inhibiting; inhibition; inhibitions; inhibitive; inhibits; inhospitable; inhospitality; inhuman; inhumane
  1. Violent and Impulsive Criminals, Criminaloids, and those guilty through insufficiency of pity, of decency, of inhibitory power, and through prejudiced notions of honor.

  2. A very plausible one is, that the cardiac palsy is caused by energetic and persistent excitement of the inhibitory cardiac nerves.

  3. Inhibitory pressure of collar (size 17) and waistcoat (5 buttons), two articles of clothing superfluous in the costume of mature males and inelastic to alterations of mass by expansion.

  4. The mucous membrane of the cavity of the uterus is very rich in blood vessels which become dilated and gorged with blood under the inhibitory influence of certain nerve centers.

  5. Alcohol which, by paralyzing the judgment and will as well as moral inhibitory sentiments, excites the sexual appetite and renders it grossly impulsive.

  6. Secondly, their over-anxiety to remember things sometimes acts as an inhibitory motive in securing that deep, impression that will enable them to remember details very well.

  7. The nervous mechanism of the heart affords the best and most commonly cited example of inhibitory action, and here it was first studied by Weber and Claude Bernard in 1848.

  8. Just as soon as the mind's inhibitory action was taken off them by the persuasion that there was nothing the matter with them the patient proceeded to get well, gradually progressive use bringing back the normal trophic condition.

  9. It seems probable that the heart condition was acquired as a consequence of some irritative lesion affecting the inhibitory nerves to the heart that developed at that time.

  10. Their action is, however, controlled by the pneumogastric nerve, through which impulses of an inhibitory nature are constantly traveling and acting as a restraining force.

  11. A lessening of the normal amount of oxygen seems to relax the inhibitory power of the higher centers over the sexual centers in the cord.

  12. In the treatment of insomnia two sets of inhibitory conditions are particularly to be looked to, those external to the patient, and those internal.

  13. And hence we have among other symptoms of this condition increased rapidity of the contractions of the heart from withdrawal of the inhibitory influence.

  14. In tachycardia there is an irritation of the accelerator nerves to the heart, in brachycardia of the inhibitory nerves.

  15. Nor must it be thought that the inhibitory faculty can act only in slowing the heart.

  16. The inhibitory power of the nervous system over spasmodic contraction of the lung tissues seems lost in deep sleep and then the asthmatic condition develops.

  17. His view is that pains tend to preserve the mutism and amnesia, so that there are “inhibitory processes” causing the stupor, which prevent the patient from further suffering.

  18. The stutter, then, is merely the externalization of an exaggerated reflex of motor speech, exaggerated through the loss of the inhibitory action of a more or less weakened visualization process.

  19. Both have a motor or driving mechanism and an inhibitory or restraining apparatus.

  20. Every motor nerve must be balanced by an inhibitory nerve.

  21. In these higher realms appetite, passion, imagination and desire correspond to the motor nervous system in the physical organism, and the power of the will and the reasoning faculties represent the inhibitory nervous system.

  22. The lower the level of vital force, the more powerful will become the inhibitory influences.

  23. This paralyzes the inhibitory nerves and temporarily precipitates the fatigue products from the blood.

  24. This is accomplished by the inhibitory nervous system [the parasympathetics].

  25. Under the paralyzing influence of the stimulant upon the inhibitory nerves, the organism now draws upon the reserve stores of nerve fats and vital energies for the necessary strength to accomplish the extra nightwork.

  26. Furthermore, the stimulant has benumbed the inhibitory nerves; in other words, it has lifted the brakes from the driving part of the organism, so that the wheels are running wild.

  27. The expenditure of the latent force in the wound spring must be regulated by the inhibitory and balancing mechanism of the timepiece.

  28. In this way, by means of the inhibitory nervous system and of the accumulating fatigue products in the body, Nature forces the organism to rest and recuperate when the available supply of vital force runs low.

  29. Similarly, the nervous system in the animal and human organism consists of two main divisions: the motor or driving and the inhibitory or restraining mechanisms.

  30. Handfield Jones[26] this seems a still unanswerable objection to the inhibitory theory.

  31. Irritation of the cortex, especially the motor area, causes convulsions, and experiment has shown that epilepsy may be due to a disease or instability of certain inhibitory cells of the cortex.

  32. The passions and emotions are all abnormal, for owing to deficiency in the higher inhibitory centres, the victim is blown about by every idle emotional wind that blows.

  33. Their weak inhibitory power is thus strengthened with happy results all round.

  34. Such children are often said to be "naughty" when in reality they are unable to exercise self-control, owing to defective inhibitory power.

  35. The perceptual volition of animals, then, is a state of consciousness arising when, as the outcome of perception and emotion, motor-stimuli prompting to activity conflict with inhibitory stimuli restraining from activity.

  36. These defects may be such biochemic alterations (undemonstrable by existing methods) as lead to diminished inhibitory power or other altered function, or to secondary pathologic or teratologic change of decidedly demonstrable nature.

  37. It is sometimes useful in hysteria, which is essentially a lack of inhibitory power, as its nasty properties induce sufficient inhibitory power to render its readministration superfluous.

  38. Result: Chlorlyptus showed inhibitory action on the growth of staphylococcus in the strength of 10 per cent.

  39. Remarks: In another experiment made, chlorlyptus showed a weaker inhibitory action on the growth of typhoid bacillus.

  40. Inhibitory action of chlorlyptus in the growth of typhoid bacillus.

  41. The brain can carry out not only such complicated acts as these, but it has been found to maintain during sleep its normal inhibitory control over the lower reflex centers in the spinal cord.

  42. Thus, in sleeping dogs, after the spinal cord has been divided in the dorsal region, reflexes can be more easily evoked from the lumbar than from the cervical cord, because the former is freed from the inhibitory control of the brain.

  43. Carbolic acid is germicidal in strong solution, inhibitory in weaker ones.

  44. Of the dry antiseptics iodoform is constantly used in septic or tuberculous wounds, and it appears to have an inhibitory action on Bacillus tuberculosis.

  45. Her association and memory processes have been proved normal, but given a task to do she is prone to show inhibitory pauses and other phenomena which interfere much with a satisfactory result.

  46. On physiological grounds the grey substance of the cord is considered to have an inhibitory action upon reflex sensibility, and this inhibitory power is paralysed by strychnine.

  47. The diastole of irritation is produced by a stimulus of the inhibitory ganglia, and only occurs after poisoning by the muscarine group of poisons.

  48. They do not consider that gelsemine acts on the cord through Setschenow's inhibitory centre, but that it destroys reflex power by its direct action on the cord, and that probably it has no influence on the motor nerves.

  49. The slowing of the heart[571] is attributed to the stimulus of the inhibitory nerves, but the later condition of frequency to their paralysis.

  50. After the section of the vagi the slow pulse frequently remains, and this is explained by the inhibitory action of the cardiac centre.

  51. Eberty observed that this slowing of the heart (he used ergotin) was produced even after destruction of the spinal cord; he therefore considered it as acting on the inhibitory nerve apparatus of the heart itself.

  52. According to experiments on animals, the heart is first slowed, then quickened; the first effect being due to a stimulation of the inhibitory nervous apparatus, the second to a paralysing action on the same.

  53. The rate of the heart's beat is slowed, and the inhibitory power of the vagus arrested.

  54. The action of muscarine upon the heart is to excite the inhibitory nerve apparatus, while the action of atropine is to paralyse the same system.

  55. There are fowls which possess neither the factor for pigment nor the inhibitory factor, which are in constitution ppii.

  56. And the same holds good for the inhibitory factor on which, as we have seen, the dominant white character of certain poultry depends.

  57. For we have already seen that black is dominant to blue, and the characters of F1, together with the greater number of blacks than blues in F2, negatives the possibility that we are here dealing with an inhibitory factor.

  58. This submission of will under a higher will and its inhibitory effect for suppression of disturbing symptoms must be wonderfully reënforced by the attitude of prayer.

  59. Yet if the explanatory arguments have once succeeded in making the patient himself believe firmly that his whole trouble resulted from suggestion only, the inhibitory effect of this idea may be an excellent one.

  60. That is a new idea to the patient and one which changes the aspect and may have an inhibitory influence.

  61. Thus the inhibitory and motor nerves of either the abductor (opener) or adductor (closer) muscles of the crayfish claw do not leave the central nervous system together, but in separate nerves.

  62. Such a course would not be improbable when it is borne in mind how, in the frog, the augmentor nerves run with the inhibitory along the whole length of the vagus nerve.

  63. These muscles are antagonistic to each other, and both possess inhibitory as well as motor nerves.

  64. His experiments, then, show that the motor nerves of the heart and of the veno-pericardial muscles run together in the same nerves, but he says nothing of the inhibitory nerves to the latter muscles.

  65. Now Carlson has shown that this cardiac nerve from the opercular and chilarial neuromeres is an inhibitory nerve to the heart, while the segmental cardiac nerves belonging to the branchial ganglia are the augmentor nerves of the heart.


  66. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "inhibitory" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    exclusive; forbidding; inhibitive; preventive; prohibitive; repressive; suppressive