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inhibition
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INHIBITION, Scotch law,. A personal prohibition which passes by letters under the signet, prohibiting the party inhibited to contract any debt, or do . any deed, by which any part of the lands may be aliened or carried off, in prejudice of the creditor inhibiting. Ersk. Pr. L. Scot. B. 2, t. 11, s. 2. See Diligences.
     2. In the civil law, the prohibition which the law makes, or a judge ordains to an individual, is called inhibition.

INHIBITION, Eng. law. The name of a writ which forbids a judge from further proceeding in a cause depending before him; it is in the nature of a prohibition. T. de la Ley; F. N. B. 39.



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Interestingly, Mahall and Callaway saw contact inhibition only among Ambrosia roots from different plants; when root tips from the same Ambrosia plant came in contact with each other, no inhibition occurred.
Contact inhibition of growth causes normal cells to spread out and grow in flat monolayers.
 
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