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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

[LL.

inhibitorius

: cf. F.

inhibitoire

Of or pertaining to, or producing, inhibition; consisting in inhibition; tending or serving to inhibit;

as, the

inhibitory

action of the pneumogastric on the respiratory center

I would not have you consider these criticisms as

inhibitory

Lamb.

Inhibitory nerves

(Physiol.)

those nerves which modify, inhibit, or suppress a motor or secretory act already in progress.