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Definition of Suppressions

Suppression
Suppression Sup*pres"sion, n. [L. suppressio: cf. F. suppression.] 1. 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. 2. (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. --Quain. 3. (Gram.) Omission; as, the suppression of a word. Syn: Overthrow; destruction; concealment; repression; detention; retention; obstruction.

Meaning of Suppressions from wikipedia

- suppressant, suppressed, or suppression in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Suppression may refer to: Suppression of Communism Act Suppression order a type of censorship...
- Fat suppression is an MRI technique in which fat signal from adipose tissue is suppressed to better visualize uptake of contrast material by bodily tissues...
- by Thomas Cromwell, who had been emplo**** by Wolsey in his monastic suppressions, and who would become Henry VIII's King's Secretary. Henry appears to...
- Suppression of evidence is a term used in the United States legal system to describe the lawful or unlawful act of preventing evidence from being shown...
- Immunosuppression is a reduction of the activation or efficacy of the immune system. Some portions of the immune system itself have immunosuppressive effects...
- Lactation suppression refers to the act of suppressing lactation by medication or other non pharmaceutical means. The **** may become painful when...
- The master suppression techniques is a framework articulated in 1945 by the Norwegian psychologist and philosopher Ingjald Nissen. These techniques identified...
- Flash suppression is a phenomenon of visual perception in which an image presented to one eye is suppressed by a flash of another image presented to the...
- 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,...
- Voter suppression are tactics used to discourage or prevent specific groups of people from voting or registering to vote. It is distinguished from political...