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.
Notable cases. 1  Clive Barker, fully recovered, contracted the syndrome after visiting the dentist. 2  Lana Coc-Kroft, fully recovered, contracted the syndrome due to group A streptococcal infection. 3  Jim Henson, d. 1990, contracted the syndrome due to group A streptococcal infection and subsequently died from it.