Crossword clues for suppression
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Suppression \Sup*pres"sion\, n. [L. suppressio: cf. F. suppression.]
The act of suppressing, or the state of being suppressed; repression; as, the suppression of a riot, insurrection, or tumult; the suppression of truth, of reports, of evidence, and the like.
(Med.) Complete stoppage of a natural secretion or excretion; as, suppression of urine; -- used in contradiction to retention, which signifies that the secretion or excretion is retained without expulsion.
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(Gram.) Omission; as, the suppression of a word.
Syn: Overthrow; destruction; concealment; repression; detention; retention; obstruction.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., from Latin suppressionem (nominative suppresio), noun of action from past participle stem of supprimere (see suppress).
Wiktionary
n. 1 The act or instance of suppressing. 2 The state of being suppressed. 3 A process in which a person consciously excludes anxiety-producing thoughts, feelings, or memories.
WordNet
n. (botany) the failure to develop of some part or organ of a plant
the act of withholding or withdrawing some book or writing from publication or circulation; "a suppression of the newspaper" [syn: curtailment]
forceful prevention; putting down by power or authority; "the suppression of heresy"; "the quelling of the rebellion"; "the stifling of all dissent" [syn: crushing, quelling, stifling]
(psychology) the conscious exclusion of unacceptable thoughts or desires [syn: inhibition]
Wikipedia
Suppression may refer to:
Suppression of an eye is a subconscious adaptation by a person's brain to eliminate the symptoms of disorders of binocular vision such as strabismus, convergence insufficiency and aniseikonia. The brain can eliminate double vision by ignoring all or part of the image of one of the eyes. The area of a person's visual field that is suppressed is called the suppression scotoma (with a scotoma meaning, more generally, an area of partial alteration in the visual field). Suppression can lead to amblyopia.
Usage examples of "suppression".
Anhedonia was apparently coined by Ribot, a Continental Frenchman, who in his 19th-century Psychologic des Sentiments says he means it to denote the psychoequivalent of analgesia, which is the neurologic suppression of pain.
A few saintly personalities stand out amidst a roiling sea of jealousies, ambition, backbiting, suppression of dissent, and absurd conceits.
Golden mentions two cases in which the application of belladonna ointment to the breasts caused suppression of the secretion of milk.
Its adoption upon our present Gregorian calendar would only require the suppression of the usual bissextile once in every 128 years, and there would be no necessity for any further correction, as the error is so insignificant that it would not amount to a day in 100,000 years.
It would be impossible, except in a volume, to write a complete history of that protest against the unjustifiable cruelties of animal experimentation, which gradually led to a demand for their legal suppression.
Motherwort is usually given in warm infusion, in suppression of the menses from cold.
Acute suppression of the menses from a cold, may be relieved by the tincture of aconite in drop doses every hour.
As acute suppression of the menses is due to derangement of the circulation of the blood, caused by taking cold, by violent excitement of the propensities or excessively strong emotional experience, the prominent indication is to secure its speedy equalization.
Suppression of the menses, or any disorder of the uterine functions, may disqualify the female for reproduction.
There may be suppression of the urine and the menses may be diminished in quantity.
There was falsity in the exaggerated descriptions of his victories, and falsity again in the suppression or palliation of his reverses and losses.
Harsh, dry, yellow skin, purpuric spots with ecchymoses under the skin and mucous membranes, retention or suppression of urine, delirium, convulsions, coma, and death.
A lady, aged 24, consulted us by letter enumerating a long list of symptoms which clearly indicated abdominal dropsy, resulting from suppression of the menses.
The suppression can generally be attributed to an adequate cause, resulting in constitutional disturbance.
He was in a mood to cherish warmly the funny, cold little culture that the street represented, the narrow unamiable culture with its taboos against mentioned reality, its elaborate suppression of sex, its insistence on a stoical ability to withstand a monotonous routine of business or drudgery -- and in the midst, performing the necessary rituals to keep dead ideas alive, like a college of witch-doctors in their stern stone tents, powerful, property-owning Hempnell.