Also known as: supp.
SUPP has various meanings in the Medical category. Discover the full forms, definitions, and usage contexts of SUPP in Medical.
A suppository is a solid dosage form that is inserted into the rectum, vagina or urethra, where it dissolves or melts and exerts local or systemic effects. They are used to deliver both systemically and locally acting medications.
MedicalAn angle or arc that, when added to a given angle or arc, makes 180° or a semicircle. To add to in order to make more complete. The main power plant fire detection system should contain an audible warning device to supplement the visual indication.
MedicalPharmacy suppositories; Medicinal preparation in cone, roller or egg shape for insertion into body orifices (anus, vagina). Manufactured from masses that give shape stability, soften at body temperature and - promote absorption - dissolve (cocoa butter, polyethylene glycols, soap gels, glycerol gelatine, fats).
MedicalIn AFP support, a page-and-form-definition function that is used to identify fields in a print record that are not printed on selected pages of a document. In architecture, a method used to prevent presentation of specified data. Examples of suppression are the processing of text data without placing characters on a physical medium and the electronic equivalent of the spot carbon, which prevents selected data from being presented on certain copies of a presentation space or a physical medium.
MedicalThe all-important function of keeping the mine workings open. As a verb, it refers to this function; as a noun it refers to all the equipment and materials - timber, roof bolts, concrete, steel, etc that are used to carry out this function.
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