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REPRESSION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of repressing; control by holding down
Example:
his goal was the repression of insolence
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("repression" is a kind of...):
control (the activity of managing or exerting control over something)
Derivation:
repress (put down by force or intimidation)
Sense 2
Meaning:
(psychiatry) the classical defense mechanism that protects you from impulses or ideas that would cause anxiety by preventing them from becoming conscious
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
Hypernyms ("repression" is a kind of...):
defence; defence mechanism; defence reaction; defense; defense mechanism; defense reaction ((psychiatry) an unconscious process that tries to reduce the anxiety associated with instinctive desires)
Domain category:
psychiatry; psychological medicine; psychopathology (the branch of medicine dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A state of forcible subjugation
Example:
the long repression of Christian sects
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("repression" is a kind of...):
subjection; subjugation (forced submission to control by others)
Derivation:
repress (put down by force or intimidation)
Context examples:
This gene is involved in chromatin remodeling and repression of transcription.
(NCOR1 Gene, NCI Thesaurus)
This gene is involved in transcriptional regulation and can stimulate transcriptional repression.
(NR0B2 Gene, NCI Thesaurus)
This allele, which encodes phosphoprotein associated with glycosphingolipid-enriched microdomains 1, is involved in T cell receptor signal transduction repression.
(PAG1 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)
This allele, which encodes the PRKC apoptosis WT1 regulator protein, plays a role in both transcriptional repression and apoptosis activation.
(PAWR wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)
Ichida et al discovered the ERRa repression of PGC-1a.
(PGC1a Regulation Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)
This allele, which encodes prohibitin protein, plays a role in the repression of cellular proliferation.
(PHB wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)
This protein plays a role in transcriptional repression.
(Nuclear Receptor Subfamily 2 Group F Member 6, NCI Thesaurus)
This protein plays a role in circadian rhythms and transcriptional repression.
(Nuclear Receptor Subfamily 1 Group D Member 2, NCI Thesaurus)
This allele, which encodes nuclear receptor 0B2 protein, is involved in transcriptional repression that is mediated by nuclear hormone receptor interactions.
(NR0B2 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)
This protein is involved in both transcriptional repression and chromatin remodeling.
(Nuclear Receptor Corepressor 1, NCI Thesaurus)
