- Nervous disorder - Obsessive - Obsessive about following organised routine - Obsessive, overwrought - Of or pertaining to the nerves; seated in the nerves;
nervous; as, a neurotic disease. - Uself in disorders of, or affecting, the nerves. - A disease seated in the nerves.
- Inner impediment - mental restraint - Reticence - The act of inhibiting, or the state of being inhibited;
restraint; prohibition; embargo. - A stopping or checking of an already present action; a
restraining of the function of an organ, or an agent, as a digestive
fluid or ferment, etc.; as, the inhibition of the respiratory center by
the pneumogastric nerve; the inhibition of reflexes, etc. - A writ from a higher court forbidding an inferior judge
from further proceedings in a cause before; esp., a writ issuing from a
higher ecclesiastical court to an inferior one, on appeal.
- evokes a specific functional reaction in an organ or tissue - Incentive - Something that elicits a response - A goad; hence, something that rouses the mind or
spirits; an incentive; as, the hope of gain is a powerful stimulus to
labor and action. - That which excites or produces a temporary increase of
vital action, either in the whole organism or in any of its parts;
especially (Physiol.), any substance or agent capable of evoking the
activity of a nerve or irritable muscle, or capable of producing an
impression upon a sensory organ or more particularly upon its specific
end organ.