Medical Definition of suppression. : an act or instance of suppressing: asa: stoppage of a bodily function or a symptom suppression of urine secretion suppression of a coughb: the failure of development of a bodily part or organc: the conscious intentional exclusion from consciousness of a thought or feelingâcompare repression 2a.
He was 53 years old. Jim Henson died from septic shock, aka sepsis, aka toxic shock syndrome. There are so many names for sepsis it can be confusing, but all these names mean the same thing; it is the bodyâs overreaction to an infection, in Jim Hensonâs case it was Group A streptococcus.
Two-and-a-half years later, on March 16, 1970, Tammi Terrell died of complications from the malignant brain tumor that caused her 1967 collapse. Tammi Terrell was only 24 years old at the time of her death, but she already had more than 10 years of show-business experience behind her.