INHIBITOR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does inhibitor mean? 

• INHIBITOR (noun)
  The noun INHIBITOR has 1 sense:

1. a substance that retards or stops an activity

  Familiarity information: INHIBITOR used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INHIBITOR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A substance that retards or stops an activity

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("inhibitor" is a kind of...):

substance (a particular kind or species of matter with uniform properties)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "inhibitor"):

angiotensin II inhibitor (an agent that retards or restrains the action of angiotensin II)

antioxidant (substance that inhibits oxidation or inhibits reactions promoted by oxygen or peroxides)

anticatalyst ((chemistry) a substance that retards a chemical reaction or diminishes the activity of a catalyst)

moderator (any substance used to slow down neutrons in nuclear reactors)

Antonym:

activator ((biology) any agency bringing about activation; a molecule that increases the activity of an enzyme or a protein that increases the production of a gene product in DNA transcription)

Derivation:

inhibit (prohibit, forbid, or prevent from doing something)

inhibit (limit, block, or decrease the action or function of)

 Context examples 

A succinate salt form of abacavir, a nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor analog of guanosine.

(Abacavir Succinate, NCI Thesaurus)

A sulfate salt form of abacavir, a nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor analog of guanosine.

(Abacavir Sulfate, NCI Thesaurus)

It is a type of histone deacetylase (HDAC) inhibitor.

(Abexinostat, NCI Dictionary)

It is a type of Bcl-2 family inhibitor.

(ABT-263, NCI Dictionary)

This allele, which encodes alpha-2-macroglobulin protein, plays a role in various processes as a protease inhibitor.

(A2M wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

Nitrification inhibitors are also used to block the transformation of ammonia into nitrate.

(Method that cuts sugarcane emissions gets global prize, SciDev.Net)

Like SPINK7, A1AT is a natural inhibitor of specific tissue-damaging proteins.

(Eosinophilic esophagitis may be due to missing protein, National Institutes of Health)

A research team set out to solve the structure of the human serotonin transporter and determine how selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) interact with it.

(Serotonin transporter structure revealed, NIH)

In a mouse model of severe muscular dystrophy, in which muscle tissue undergoes repeated cycles of regeneration and degeneration, weekly treatment with a Stat3 inhibitor for a month improved muscle repair.

(Controlling Muscle Repair, NIH)

It is a type of angiogenesis inhibitor.

(ABT-510, NCI Dictionary)