| inhibitory junction potential | Hyperpolarization of smooth muscle produced by stimulation of inhibitory nerves. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| inhibitory nerve | <anatomy, nerve> A nerve conveying impulses that diminish functional activity in a part. (05 Mar 2000) |
| inhibitory postsynaptic potential | The change in potential produced in the membrane of the next neuron when an impulse which has an inhibitory influence arrives at the synapse; it is a local change in the direction of hyperpolarization; the frequency of discharge of a given neuron is determined by the extent to which impulses that lead to excitatory postsynaptic potential's predominate over those that cause inhibitory postsynaptic potential's. (05 Mar 2000) |
| inhibitory synapse | A synapse in which an action potential in the presynaptic cell reduces the probability of an action potential occurring in the postsynaptic cell. The most common inhibitory neurotransmitter is GABA, this opens channels in the postsynaptic cell which tend to stabilise its resting potential, thus rendering it less likely to fire. See: excitatory synapse, presynaptic inhibition, postsynaptic inhibition. (18 Nov 1997) |
| inhibitory-motor | <physiology> A term applied to certain nerve centers which govern or restrain subsidiary centers, from which motor impressions issue. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| inhumation | 1. The act of inhuming or burying; interment. 2. <chemistry> The act of burying vessels in warm earth in order to expose their contents to a steady moderate heat; the state of being thus exposed. 3. <medicine> Arenation. Origin: Cf. F. Inhumation. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| inhume | 1. To deposit, as a dead body, in the earth; to bury; to inter. "Weeping they bear the mangled heaps of slain, Inhume the natives in their native plain." (Pope) 2. To bury or place in warm earth for chemical or medicinal purposes. Origin: Cf. F. Inhumer. See Inhumate. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |