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SUPERSEDE. To displace.

SUPERVENING. To take place; to happen; to occur.

SUPPURATING. Forming pus.

SUSTENANCE. That which supports life; food.

SYMPTOM. A sign of disease.

SYPHILIS. A chronic, infectious, venereal disease, which may also be hereditary, inducing cutaneous and other lesions.

TARTAR. The deposit of calcareous matter upon the teeth.

TENSION. The state of being stretched.

TENTATIVE. Based on experiment.

TERM. A definite period, as the full Term of gestation.

THERAPEUTICS. Science concerned with the application of remedies and the treatment of disease.

TISSUE. An aggregation of similar cells and fibers, forming a distinct structure.

TITILLATION. The act or sensation of tickling.

TONIC. An agent to produce normal tone of an organ or a part.

TONSIL. A glandular organ on each side of the throat.

TONSILITIS. Inflammation of the tonsils.

TOXICATION. The process of cumulative poisoning from septic products.

TOXIN. A poison formed by bacteria in both living tissues and dead substances.

TRACHEA. The windpipe.

TREMOR. Involuntary trembling.

TRUNK. The body except the head and the limbs. 368