in Medicine, is generally used to signify a retention of urine or of the menes.

SUPURATION, the second way wherein an inflammation terminates; being a conversion of the inflamed blood and the first adjacent parts, as the vevells and fat; into pus or matter; which disorder, when it has not yet found an opening, is generally called an abscess.

SUPERACOSTALES, in Anatomy. See Table of the Muscles in Anatomy.