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Sutasekhara rasa
Sutasekhara rasa (Sūtaśekhara rasa), also Sutshekhar Rasa, is a classical Ayurvedic herbo-mineral mercury formulation used mainly for Amlapitta (hyperacidity) and acid-peptic disorders; variants include gold-containing Suvarna, non-gold Sada, and Laghu (red ochre) forms.
Sutetinib
Sutetinib (苏特替尼), an oral EGFR-TKI by Teligene/Jiangsu Maidu with Suzhong Pharmaceutical for China, targets rare EGFR mutations L861Q, G719X, S768I in NSCLC; phase III, IIb ORR 70.8%.
Sutilains
Sutilains (Travase) is a mixture of Bacillus subtilis serine proteases used as a topical enzymatic debriding agent for burns and ulcers; FDA-approved 1969, discontinued 1996, not currently available in the US.
Suture anchor fixation
Suture anchor fixation is a surgical technique that reattaches tendon or ligament to bone using an implanted anchor carrying sutures, used in rotator cuff repair.
Suture Anchors
A suture anchor is a small surgical implant placed in bone to attach soft tissue such as tendon or ligament, used chiefly in shoulder surgery since 1985.
Suture button fixation
Suture button fixation is a surgical technique stabilizing the ankle syndesmosis with two metal buttons joined by a suture, introduced in 2005 as a dynamic alternative to screws.
Suture Techniques
Suture techniques: methods of placing stitches (interrupted, continuous, mattress, subcuticular) to close wounds. Also staples and tissue adhesives; history from Susruta (500 BCE) to synthetic absorbables; comparative trial evidence.
Sutureless surgery
Sutureless surgery closes wounds or joins tissues without sutures, using tissue adhesives, sealants, or staples, including cyanoacrylate skin glues, fibrin sealants, and sutureless aortic valves.
Sutures
Sutures are threaded medical devices that hold body tissues together after surgery or injury. Covers absorbable and non-absorbable materials, ancient Egyptian origins, catgut, synthetic sutures, and randomized-trial evidence comparing sutures with staples.
Suvemcitug for injection
Suvemcitug for injection (恩泽舒, suvemcitug) is a humanized anti-VEGF monoclonal antibody approved in China (June 2025) with chemotherapy for platinum-resistant recurrent ovarian, fallopian tube, and primary peritoneal cancer, based on the phase 3 SCORES trial.
Suvomipic
Suvomipic, also known as JXL069 (CAS 2260696-63-5), is the WHO proposed INN for a mitochondrial pyruvate carrier inhibitor developed at UCLA and widely linked, though not formally confirmed, to Pelage Pharmaceuticals' investigational hair-loss drug PP405.
Suvorexant
Suvorexant (Belsomra), Merck's first-in-class dual orexin receptor antagonist for insomnia, approved in the US in August 2014; 12-hour half-life, 20/15 mg doses, somnolence as main adverse event, Schedule IV with proposed Schedule V transfer.
Suvratoxumab
Suvratoxumab (MEDI4893, AR-320) is an extended-half-life human monoclonal antibody neutralizing Staphylococcus aureus alpha-toxin, developed to prevent ventilator-associated pneumonia; its phase 2 SAATELLITE trial missed significance (31.9% RRR, p=0.17).
Suzanne Somers
Suzanne Somers (1946-2023), American actress, Chrissy Snow on Three's Company, later Carol Foster Lambert on Step by Step; ThighMaster pitchwoman, author of 25 books including Ageless, and promoter of bioidentical hormones; died of breast cancer at 76.
Suzetrigine
Suzetrigine (Journavx, VX-548), Vertex Pharmaceuticals' oral NaV1.8 sodium channel inhibitor, FDA-approved January 30, 2025 as the first new-class non-opioid for moderate-to-severe acute pain in adults.
Suzi Jiangqi Tang
苏子降气汤 (Suzi Jiangqi Decoction) is a classical Chinese medicine qi-regulating formula from the Song dynasty Taiping Huimin Heji Jufang, originally Zisuzi Decoction in the Tang Beiji Qianjin Yaofang. It directs qi downward, dispels phlegm, and treats upper-excess lower-deficiency cough and dyspnea, used today mainly for COPD, bronchitis, and asthma.
Svarna bhasma
Svarna bhasma (Swarna/Suvarna Bhasma), calcined gold ash of Ayurvedic Rasashastra, used for tuberculosis, diabetes, arthritis, and nervous diseases and in child Suvarnaprashana; nanoparticulate gold, doses 15–240 mg, variable gold content, contested pediatric safety.
Svarnamaksika bhasma
Svarnamaksika bhasma (Swarnamakshika bhasma), an Ayurvedic calcined preparation of chalcopyrite (copper pyrite, CuFeS2), a Maharasa mineral purified by shodhana and incinerated by marana, used classically for fever, anemia, diabetes, and insomnia.
Svarnavanga
Svarnavanga (Swarna Vanga, Svarṇa Vaṅga) is an Ayurvedic tin-sulfur-mercury medicine used since the 14th century for diabetes, urinary, and respiratory disorders; rat studies found no tissue toxicity at therapeutic doses.
Svasakuthara rasa
Svasakuthara rasa (Shwasakuthara Rasa) is an Ayurvedic herbo-mineral pill of purified mercury, sulphur, borax, realgar, aconite, and pungent herbs, used for bronchial asthma and bronchitis; Bhaishajya Ratnavali source, 125 mg dose, mercury safety studied.
SW_CIDP trial
SW_CIDP (NCT04529291) was a withdrawn interventional trial by Fondation Hôpital Saint-Joseph testing InertiaLocoGraphy as a biomarker of immunoglobulin therapy efficacy in CIDP; registered 2020, stopped before enrollment in 2022.
Swachh Bharat Mission (स्वच्छ भारत मिशन)
Swachh Bharat Mission (स्वच्छ भारत मिशन), Clean India Mission, launched by PM Modi 2 October 2014; rural and urban sanitation campaign that declared India ODF by 2019 with over 100 million rural toilets, followed by ODF Plus Phase II and SBM-U 2.0.
Swaddling
Swaddling is the practice of wrapping an infant snugly in a light blanket to calm the baby and promote sleep, a once-universal child-care practice still common in parts of the Middle East.
Swallowing
Swallowing (deglutition) moves food and liquid from mouth to stomach in four phases using six cranial nerves and over 30 muscles; its disorder, dysphagia, affects up to 68% of long-term care residents and is assessed by VFSS and FEES.
Swartz Prize for Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience
The Swartz Prize for Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience is an annual award by the Society for Neuroscience, first given in 2008 to Wilfrid Rall and supported by the Swartz Foundation.
Sweat allergy
Sweat allergy is a type I IgE-mediated hypersensitivity to sweat contents, seen in atopic dermatitis and cholinergic urticaria; the major antigen is MGL_1304, a 17 kDa protein from Malassezia globosa.
Sweat gland
Sweat gland (sudoriferous gland): exocrine skin gland in two forms, eccrine (thermoregulatory, 2–4 million, up to 4 L sweat/hour) and apocrine (hair follicles, puberty-onset, body odor via bacterial breakdown).
Sweat test
The sweat test is a diagnostic procedure that measures chloride concentration in stimulated sweat to diagnose cystic fibrosis; a chloride level of 60 mmol/L or above supports the diagnosis.
Sweating sickness
Sweating sickness, or Sudor Anglicus, the English sweat: a rapidly fatal fever striking England in five epidemics (1485, 1508, 1517, 1528, 1551), killing within 24 hours, cause still unknown.
Swedish massage
Swedish massage, also called classic massage, is a hands-on therapy using five strokes to relax muscles and improve circulation, the most common form of therapeutic massage.