suppression

suppression /sup·pres·sion/ (su-presh´un)

1. the act of holding back or checking.

2. sudden stoppage of a secretion, excretion, or normal discharge.

3. in psychiatry, conscious inhibition of an unacceptable impulse or idea as contrasted with repression, which is unconscious.

4. in genetics, masking of the phenotypic expression of a mutation by the occurrence of a second (suppressor) mutation at a different site from the first; the organism appears to be reverted but is in fact doubly mutated.

5. inhibition of the erythrocytic stage of plasmodium as prophylaxis for clinical attacks of malaria.

6. cortical inhibition of perception of objects in all or part of the visual field of one eye during binocular vision.

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bone marrow suppression  suppression of bone marrow activity, resulting in reduction in the number of platelets, red cells, and white cells.

overdrive suppression  transient suppression of automaticity in a cardiac pacemaker following a period of stimulation by a more rapidly discharging pacemaker.

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sup·pres·sion (s-prshn)

n.

1. The act of suppressing or the state of being suppressed.

2. Conscious exclusion of unacceptable desires, thoughts, or memories from the mind.

3. The sudden arrest of the secretion of a fluid, such as urine or bile.

4. The checking or curtailing of an abnormal flow or discharge.

5. The effect of a second genetic mutation that reverses a phenotypic change that had been caused by a previous mutation at a different location on the chromosome.

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suppression,

n 1., in naturopathic medicine, the successful relief of symptoms without curing the underlying illness or disease.
2., in homeopathy, the elimination of symptoms, often with topicals, without curing deeper aspects of the disease. Thought to result in more serious inner disease later.

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suppression

1. sudden stoppage of a secretion, excretion or normal discharge.

2. in genetics, restoration of a lost function by a second mutation either in a gene other than that involved in the primary mutation, or within the same gene.