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repression /re·pres·sion/ (-presh´un)

1. the act of restraining, inhibiting, or suppressing.

2. in psychiatry, an unconscious defense mechanism in which unacceptable ideas, fears, and impulses are thrust out or kept out of consciousness.

3. gene r.

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enzyme repression  interference, usually by the endproduct of a pathway, with synthesis of the enzymes of that pathway.

gene repression  the inhibition of gene transcription of an operon; in prokaryotes repressor binding to the operon is involved.

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re·pres·sion (r-prshn)

n.

1. The act of repressing or the state of being repressed.

2. The unconscious exclusion of painful impulses, desires, or fears from the conscious mind.

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Repression

A unconscious psychological mechanism in which painful or unacceptable ideas, memories, or feelings are removed from conscious awareness or recall.

Mentioned in: Somatoform Disorders

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repression

[ripresh′ən]

Etymology: L, reprimere, to press back

1 the act of restraining, inhibiting, or suppressing.

2 (in psychoanalysis) an unconscious defense mechanism that also underlies all defense mechanisms, whereby unacceptable thoughts, feelings, ideas, impulses, or memories, especially those concerning some traumatic past event, are pushed from the consciousness because of their painful guilt association or disagreeable content and are submerged in the unconscious, where they remain dormant but operant. Such repressed emotional conflicts are the source of anxiety that may lead to any of the anxiety disorders. Compare suppression. repress, v., repressive, adj.

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repression

1. the act of restraining, inhibiting or suppressing.

2. in molecular genetics, inhibition of gene transcription by a repressor.

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enzyme repression

interference, usually by the end product of a pathway, with synthesis of the enzymes of that pathway.

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repression

Psychiatry An unconscious defense mechanism, that blocks unacceptable ideas, fantasies, or impulses from consciousness or that keeps unconsciousness what never was conscious. Cf Suppression Psychoanalysis A mental block to acknowledging an uncomfortable memory or feeling.