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cross-inhibition

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.38 in modern English

Syllables
cross-in-hi-bi-tion
IPA
22
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
5
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The process where one pathway suppresses the activity of another, often through inhibitory signaling.

Countable; Uncountable

Usage

Inflected Forms

cross-inhibitions (plural)

Questions

What does cross-inhibition mean?
The process where one pathway suppresses the activity of another, often through inhibitory signaling.

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