Home
Idioms
Top 1000 Words
Top 5000 Words


Example sentences for "inhibits"

Lexicographically close words:
inhibiting; inhibition; inhibitions; inhibitive; inhibitory; inhospitable; inhospitality; inhuman; inhumane; inhumanities
  1. But they cannot shew any difference outwardly because there is always present in the male a factor which inhibits the production of the mimetic pattern even though the factor for that pattern be present.

  2. Lillie thinks that the KCN in this experiment merely inhibits the change of the cortical layer necessary for development.

  3. We thus see that while the stem inhibits the growth of the leaves connected with it, the latter accelerate the growth in the stem.

  4. With our present knowledge it does not seem very probable that lack of oxygen diminishes the permeability of the egg, but we know that it inhibits the developmental processes.

  5. Both facts can probably be explained on the same basis; namely, on the assumption that it is the flow of substances from the leaf to the stem which inhibits the growth of the notches and accelerates the growth of the buds in the stem.

  6. A trace of alkali usually increases and acid inhibits the fluorescence of solutions.

  7. It is also a well known fact that anything which inhibits or removes vagus control of the heart allows the heart to become more rapid, since these nerves act as a governor to the heart's contractions.

  8. Hypertension is generally a prelude to arteriosclerosis, and everything which tends to increase tension promotes the disease; everything which tends to diminish tension more or less inhibits the disease.

  9. The vigorous growth of plants in soils very rich in organic matter, which inhibits the production of nitrates by the nitrous-nitric bacteria when grown in culture, and possibly (?

  10. Reinke has shown that the passing of strong sound waves through bacterial growths markedly inhibits their development.

  11. A suggestion is an idea which in itself is not different from other ideas, but the way in which it takes possession of the mind reduces the chances of any opposite ideas; it inhibits them.

  12. This opens wide the channels of discharge for the movement to the right and inhibits thereby the excitability of the center which leads to the opposite action.

  13. But even this selection inhibits only the attitude and not the sensorial excitement.

  14. The own personality is submerging into a larger all-embracing hold and thus inhibits the small cares and troubles of merely personal origin.

  15. On the other hand, the opening of the one passageway closes the path to the opposite action and inhibits the impressions which would interfere with our interest.

  16. The thought of the slap, connected with the activity of Centre 2, inhibits the snatch, and makes it abortive, so it is represented only by a dotted line of discharge not reaching the terminus.

  17. There is a very general impression among those who have had most to do with the insane as well as among psychologists in general that religion, instead of favoring the development of insanity, rather inhibits it.

  18. This inhibits normal function, lessens appetite and exercise, at times even disturbs sleep, and so brings about some at least of the ailments that are dreaded.

  19. Under such conditions children are conscious of a power which inhibits all their actions; they become timid, and have no courage to undertake anything without the help and consent of the person on whom they depend entirely.

  20. Stimulation of the under side of the tendril induces a marked curvature, but simultaneous stimulation of the diametrically opposite side inhibits the response.

  21. It will be seen from the above that the illumination of the tip practically inhibits the neutralisation and thus restores the normal positive curvature.

  22. If by a wound one inhibits the function of the testicles, he gravely mutilates the human body, for a grave mutilation is nothing but an inhibition of the function of a distinct organ through a wound.

  23. One may be fairly sure, that save as some perverted theology inhibits a spirit of love, a man's missionary interest will be proportionate to the reality and value of his own experience.

  24. The physical effects of fear are deadly; it positively inhibits any useful thinking; and in the spiritual life its results are utterly demoralizing.

  25. A tendency, when aroused to activity, facilitates responses that are in its line and inhibits others.

  26. The selective influence of the mental set is exerted before recall; it facilitates the right recall and inhibits recall of any but the right response.

  27. But the motive, persisting in its inner activity, facilitates reactions to certain stimuli and inhibits others.

  28. The nest-building tendency favors response to certain stimuli, and not to others; it facilitates certain reactions and inhibits others.

  29. The mental set for multiplying facilitates the responses of the multiplication table and inhibits those of the addition table, while the mental set for adding does the reverse.

  30. In all such cases, the motor area facilitates or inhibits the action of the lower centers.

  31. Anxious attention to the knee jerk inhibits it; gritting the teeth or clenching the fist reinforces it.

  32. It facilitates reactions that are preparatory to the end-result, and inhibits others.

  33. To be sure, persons who read a great deal usually get over this habit, as the child more and more inhibits his motor response to many seen objects.

  34. The standard inhibits action in obedience to the impulse that has come to consciousness, and the image of the new end is, on its part, definite and impressive enough to inhibit action in obedience to the standard.

  35. The attitude of survey, however, inhibits this action of the self and the sense of importance is the resulting emotional apprehension of the value of the object hereby brought to recognition.

  36. Placidity of mind favors the flow of nerve impulses for reconstructive purposes, while over-reaction to pain inhibits the natural processes of repair.

  37. Besides, in many cases the real reasons why patients continue to have certain symptoms once they have been initiated, is that their worry about themselves inhibits their natural curative power.

  38. Their force must be lessened, for they are a heavy incubus on the patient's mind, imposing a burden on vitality that inhibits normal, vital reaction.

  39. Suddenly concentrated attention on the dread of mental interruption inhibits mental action and what was dreaded follows almost necessarily.

  40. The constant occupation with this dread apparently inhibits to some degree the flow of nerve impulses to the abdominal organs, and digestion, already disturbed, is still more impaired.

  41. According to this scientist the antibody inhibits the morbigenic action of the toxin by neutralizing the toxin, combining with the latter to form a compound of a chemical nature which is devoid of toxicity and without action on the organism.

  42. On exterior walls of the ramma is ordinarily a solid extension of the shoji which inhibits air flow from the outside.

  43. Fusuma provide little privacy between rooms except a visual screen, and it is rumored that this undesired communication increasingly inhibits lovemaking by modern parents.

  44. If the foot is not it must be because there is something in the skin of the foot that inhibits the development of feathers there.

  45. This means that there is a factor that inhibits the development of the narial flap.

  46. And this perpetual Life-tax upon his energies so reduces these as to temper his physical and nervous activities and his bent for individuation, and thus inhibits him from squandering his whole potential of Life-power in volitional output.

  47. Just as negative electricity inhibits the positive and destructive forces of positive electricity, although it does not, of itself, manifest directly.

  48. Cooling inhibits the germination and growth of this organismal residue.

  49. Much dextrose (derived from the meat of the broth) inhibits the reaction.

  50. Freudenreich has shown that acid inhibits the growth of the casein-digesting microbes and vice versâ.

  51. But as in the alcoholic, so in the acetic, fermentation, there comes a time when the presence of an excess of the acid inhibits the further growth of the organism.

  52. This inhibits many common water bacteria.

  53. How does the feeling of energy arise, what increases the energy discharge and what blocks, inhibits or lowers it?

  54. Nevertheless, a situation of critical importance, in which choice is difficult or digagreeable, inhibits energy feeling[1] and discharge perhaps as much as any other mental factor.

  55. A huge amount of work has been done of late years on this system and we know definitely that it stimulates, inhibits and regulates these organs, and also that it records their activities.

  56. By definition, an idea which assumes a place in consciousness which but for itself, as experiment indicates, another might occupy, inhibits the other.

  57. If the lines are so situated that the attention process excited by the one set is carried away from the other set, the one set inhibits the other.

  58. It takes complete possession of our minds only when it inhibits all other possibilities.

  59. The positive toning of the experience--what we call aesthetic pleasure--is due not only to the favorable stimulation, but also to the fact that the very antagonism of impulses which constitutes repose heightens tone while it inhibits action.

  60. Within the limits of the community man inhibits his natural impulses and settles his personal disputes according to the rules laid down by the headman or chief.

  61. One finds instead a sort of violent fever and calenture which not merely deflects, as any emotion may, but totally inhibits the rational operations of the mind.

  62. At first he inhibits a desire because father thinks it naughty; later he inhibits it because he himself thinks it naughty.


  63. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "inhibits" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.