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antagonism 1. Physiol the normal opposition between certain muscles 2. Biology the inhibition or interference of growth of one kind of organism by another antagonism [an′tag·ə‚niz·əm] (biology) Mutual opposition as seen between organisms, muscles, physiologic actions, and drugs. Opposing action between drugs and disease or drugs and functions. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| She had an active force of antagonism within her, when the antagonism turned on the defence either of plans or persons that she believed in; and the wrongs which she felt that Will had received from her husband, and the external conditions which to others were grounds for slighting him, only gave the more tenacity to her affection and admiring judgment. Feeling herself in antagonism she was quite in accord. He saw that Russia has splendid land, splendid laborers, and that in certain cases, as at the peasant's on the way to Sviazhsky's, the produce raised by the laborers and the land is great--in the majority of cases when capital is applied in the European way the produce is small, and that this simply arises from the fact that the laborers want to work and work well only in their own peculiar way, and that this antagonism is not incidental but invariable, and has its roots in the national spirit. |
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