Cell Function
contact inhibition
con·tact in·hi·bi·tion [ kon-takt in-i-bish-uhn, in-hi- ]
Subclass of:
Cell physiology
Definitions related to contact inhibition:
  • Arrest of cell locomotion or cell division when two cells come into contact.
    CRISP Thesaurus
    National Institutes of Health, 2006
  • The series of events in which information about the density of cells in a population is received by direct cell-cell contact and is converted into a molecular signal, resulting in the cessation of cell growth or proliferation.
    Gene Ontology Dictionary
    Gene Ontology Consortium, 2021
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