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suppression

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sup⋅pres⋅sion

  [suh-presh-uhn]
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–noun
1. the act of suppressing.
2. the state of being suppressed.
3. Psychoanalysis. conscious inhibition of an impulse.
4. Botany. the absence of parts normally or usually present due to the action of frost, disease, or insects.
5. Radio, Electronics. the elimination of a component of a varying emission, as the elimination of a frequency or group of frequencies from a signal.
6. Electricity. the reduction or elimination of irregular current oscillations or frequencies in a circuit.
Origin:
1520–30; < L suppressiōn- (s. of suppressiō) a pressing under. See suppress, -ion
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sup·pres·sion   (sə-prěsh'ən)   
n.  

  1. The act of suppressing.

  2. The state of being suppressed.

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

  4. Botany The failure of an organ or part to develop.

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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: sup·pres·sion
Pronunciation: s&-'presh-&n
Function: noun
: an act or instance of suppressing: as a : stoppage of a bodily function or a symptom <suppression of urine secretion> <suppression of a cough> b : the failure of development of a bodily part or organ c : the conscious intentional exclusion from consciousness of a thought or feeling —compare REPRESSION2a
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Medical Dictionary

suppression sup·pres·sion (sə-prěsh'ən)
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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