growth inhibition
Stunting of progress
Growth inhibition is the slowing or stopping of biological development, whether of cells, organisms, or populations.
In medicine and research, it often describes how substances prevent cancer cells from multiplying: The drug showed 80% growth inhibition in tumor samples.
Plants experience growth inhibition from shade, drought, or chemical herbicides.
The term appears in scientific contexts more than everyday speech.
- stuntedArrested in development
- failure to thriveInadequate childhood growth diagnosis
- suppressionForcible prevention or concealment
- tumor suppressorGene preventing uncontrolled growth
- arrestSeize by law
stagnation · dormancy · retardation · blockage · dead end · atrophy · withering · dwarfism · tumor · chemotherapy · herbicide · fungicide · apoptosis · senescence · quiescence · resistance · barrier · glass ceiling
- Ecotoxicologytoxicology, bioassay, LD50, dose-response, lethal dose
- Microbial TestingMIC, bacterial culture, inoculum, culture plate, resistant
- plant stressheat stress, wilting, leaf scorch, chlorosis, leaf burn
- Plant Toxicologytoxic buildup, heavy metals, lead toxicity, chlorosis, necrosis
- Tumor SuppressionBRCA1, apoptosis
- cell biologycell membrane, cell division, cytoplasm, ribosome, mitochondria
growth inhibitionproliferation
Rapid increase in quantity
hyperplasia · cell division · anabolism · regeneration · neoplasia
growth inhibitionexpansion
Increase in scope
economic growth · development · scaling · flourishing · boom
growth inhibitiongrowth
Increase in size
development · flourishing · thriving · maturation · growth spurt
growth, inhibition, grow, grown, growing, grower, growers, outgrow, outgrows