inhibitor

名词 n.
中文释义
美 /ɪnˈhɪbɪtɚ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. One who, or that which, inhibits.
    — I found daily meditation to be a useful inhibitor of negative thoughts.
  2. Any substance capable of stopping or slowing a specific chemical reaction.
    — The class of antidepressants most commonly associated with sexual dysfunction is selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, or SSRIs, which treat depression by ultimately increasing levels of the neurotransmitter serotonin in the brain. […] A common solution is switching to bupropion, which is a norepinephrine-dopamine reuptake inhibitor, or NDRI.
  3. Any substance capable of stopping or slowing a specific biological process.

词形变化

inhibitors plural

词汇关系

衍生词
inhibitory angioinhibitor carbidopa cathelin coinhibitor isoinhibitor neuroinhibitor noninhibitor ovoinhibitor proinhibitor salirasib sympathoinhibitor vasoinhibitor vigabatrin
相关词
catalyst

词源

Etymology tree
English inhibit
Proto-Indo-European *-tōr
Proto-Italic *-tōr
Latin -tor
Latin -ātor
Old French -eorbor.
Middle English -our
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Latin -torlbor.
English -or
English inhibitor
From inhibit + -or.
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