Look up: repression

1. Repression
   The process by which the synthesis of an enzyme is inhibited by the presence of an external substance, the repressor protein.
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2. repression
   [n] - a state of forcible subjugation 2. [n] - (psychiatry) the classical defense mechanism that protects you from impulses or ideas that would cause anxiety by preventing them from becoming conscious 3. [n] - the act of repressing
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3. Repression
   The psychodynamic theory of forgetting. Holds that memories can be deliberately lost/suppressed if they contain ego-threatening material.
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4. repression
   the active rejection by the superego of unacceptable instinctual impulses Category: Medicine • the exclusion of specific psychological activities or contents from conscious awareness by a process of which the individual is not directly aware. Category: Medicine
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5. Repression
   Re·pres'sion noun [ Confer French répression .] 1. The act of repressing, or state of being repressed; as, the repression of evil and evil doers. 2. That which represses; check; restraint.
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6. repression
   The inhibition of a gene's expression, this is typically caused by the change in the activity of a regulatory protein. ... (09 Oct 1997) ...
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7. repression
   noun the act of repressing; control by holding down; `his goal was the repression of insolence`
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8. repression
   noun (psychiatry) the classical defense mechanism that protects you from impulses or ideas that would cause anxiety by preventing them from becoming conscious
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9. repression
   noun a state of forcible subjugation; `the long repression of Christian sects`
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10. repression
    (re-presh´әn) the act of restraining, inhibiting, or suppressing. a type of defense mechanism in which a person unconsciously banishes unacceptable ideas, feelings or impulses from consciousness. The person is typically unaware of “forgetting” unpleasant situations as a way of avoiding co...
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11. Repression
    • (n.) The act of repressing, or state of being repressed; as, the repression of evil and evil doers. • (n.) That which represses; check; restraint.
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12. repression
    (from the article `memory`) Interference theory also fails to account for some pathological forms of forgetting. Repression as observed in psychiatric practice, for example, ... 1. Repression is the withdrawal from consciousness of an unwanted idea, affect, or desire by pushing it down, or repressing it, into the unconscious ... ...b...
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13. repression
    in metabolism, a control mechanism in which a protein molecule, called a repressor, prevents the synthesis of an enzyme by binding to—and thereby ... [4 related articles]
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14. repression
    
    • a state of forcible subjugation
    • (psychiatry) the classical defense mechanism that protects you from impulses or ideas that would cause anxiety by preventing them from becoming conscious
    
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15. repression
    repression, in psychology: see defense mechanism; psychoanalysis.
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16. repression
    Type: Term Pronunciation: rē-presh′ŭn Definitions: 1. In psychotherapy, the active process or defense mechanism of keeping out and ejecting and banishing from consciousness those ideas or impulses that are unacceptable to the ego or superego. 2. Decreased expression of some gene product.
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17. repression
    In psychology, a mental process that ejects and excludes from consciousness ideas, impulses, or memories that would otherwise threaten emotional stability. In the Austrian psychiatrist Sigmund Freud's early writing, repression is controlled by the censor, a hypothetical mechanism or agency that allows ideas, memories, and so on from the unconsc...
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