| supporter | 1. One who, or that which, supports; as, oxygen is a supporter of life. "The sockets and supporters of flowers are figured." (Bacon) "The saints have a . . . Supporter in all their miseries." (South) 2. Especially, an adherent; one who sustains, advocates, and defends; as, the supporter of a party, faction, or candidate. 3. A knee placed under the cathead. 4. A figure, sometimes of a man, but commonly of some animal, placed on either side of an escutcheon, and exterior to it. Usually, both supporters of an escutcheon are similar figures. 5. <medicine> A broad band or truss for supporting the abdomen or some other part or organ. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| supporting area | Those areas of the maxillary and mandibular edentulous ridges which are considered best suited to carry the forces of mastication when the dentures are in function. Synonym: denture foundation area. (05 Mar 2000) |
| supporting cell | One of the ordinary elongated cell's resting on the basement membrane that surround and serve as a support to the shorter specialised cell's in certain organs, such as the labyrinth of the inner ear or olfactory epithelium. Synonym: supporting cell. (05 Mar 2000) |
| supporting reactions | Described by Magnus, who distinguished two types: (05 Mar 2000) |
| supporting reflexes | Described by Magnus, who distinguished two types: (05 Mar 2000) |
| supportive care | Treatment given to prevent, control, or relieve complications and side effects and to improve the patient's comfort and quality of life. (12 Dec 1998) |
| supportive psychotherapy | Psychotherapy aiming at bolstering the patient's psychological defenses and providing him or her reassurance, as in crisis intervention, rather than probing provocatively into his or her conflicts. (05 Mar 2000) |
| supportress | A female supporter. "You are my gracious patroness and supportress." (Massinger) Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| suppose | 1. To represent to one's self, or state to another, not as true or real, but as if so, and with a view to some consequence or application which the reality would involve or admit of; to imagine or admit to exist, for the sake of argument or illustration; to assume to be true; as, let us suppose the earth to be the center of the system, what would be the result? "Suppose they take offence without a cause." (Shak) "When we have as great assurance that a thing is, as we could possibly, supposing it were, we ought not to make any doubt of its existence." (Tillotson) 2. To imagine; to believe; to receive as true. "How easy is a bush supposed a bear!" (Shak) "Let not my lord suppose that they have slain all the young men, the king's sons; for Amnon only is dead." (2 Sam. Xiii. 32) 3. To require to exist or to be true; to imply by the laws of thought or of nature; as, purpose supposes foresight. "One falsehood always supposes another, and renders all you can say suspected." (Female Quixote) 4. To put by fraud in the place of another. Synonym: To imagine, believe, conclude, judge, consider, view, regard, conjecture, assume. Origin: F. Supposer; pref. Sub- under + poser to place; corresponding in meaning to L. Supponere, suppositum, to put under, to substitute, falsify, counterfeit. See Pose. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| suppositor | <medicine> An apparatus for the introduction of suppositories into the rectum. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| suppositories | Medicated masses adapted for introduction into the rectal, vaginal, or urethral orifice of the body. Suppository bases are solid at room temperature but melt or dissolve at body temperature. Commonly used bases are cocoa butter, glycerinated gelatin, hydrogenated vegetable oils, polyethylene glycols of various molecular weights, and fatty acid esters of polyethylene glycol. (12 Dec 1998) |
| suppository | <pharmacology> A medicated mass adapted for introduction into the rectal, vaginal or urethral orifice of the body, suppository bases are solid at room temperature but melt or dissolve at body temperature. Commonly used bases are cocoa butter, glycerinated gelatin, hydrogenated vegetable oils, polyethylene glycols of various molecular weights and fatty acid esters of polyethylene glycol. Origin: L. Suppositorium (18 Nov 1997) |
| suppressant, cough | A drug used to control coughing, particularly with a dry, nagging, unproductive cough. (12 Dec 1998) |
| 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. <medicine> 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. 3. Omission; as, the suppression of a word. Synonym: Overthrow, destruction, concealment, repression, detention, retention, obstruction. Origin: L. Suppressio: cf. F. Suppression. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| suppression amblyopia | The suppression of the central vision in one eye when the images from the two eyes are so different that they cannot be fused into one. This may be due to: 1) faulty image formation (sensory amblyopia); 2) a large difference in refraction between the two eyes (anisometropic amblyopia); or 3) the two eyes pointing in different directions (strabismic amblyopia). Most suppression amblyopia can be reversed if appropriately treated before age 6 years. Synonym: amblyopia ex anopsia. (05 Mar 2000) |