remission

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She had been trying to reach remission for the brain tumor as well.

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Quick take

an abatement in intensity or degree (as in the manifestations of a disease); "his cancer is in remission"

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of remission gathered in one view.

noun

an abatement in intensity or degree (as in the manifestations of a disease); "his cancer is in remission"

noun

a payment of money sent to a person in another place

noun

(law) the act of remitting (especially the referral of a law case to another court)

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for remission.

noun

an abatement in intensity or degree (as in the manifestations of a disease); "his cancer is in remission"

noun

a payment of money sent to a person in another place

See also: remittance, remittal, remitment

noun

(law) the act of remitting (especially the referral of a law case to another court)

noun

the act of absolving or remitting; formal redemption as pronounced by a priest in the sacrament of penance

Example sentences

She had been trying to reach remission for the brain tumor as well.

I wouldn't have guessed the remission numbers were that high.

But it's not a cancer you can treat and have it go into remission.

Old habits die hard or simply just go into remission, but i made it!where am i now?

I have IBS and an anxiety disorder that had been in remission for years.

The patient would not reach remission until August, a couple months later.

And combined with therapy, the rate of remission improves even more.

But there is no evidence that diet either provokes flare-ups or induces remission.

"Well, we just beat the tuberculosis into remission, so now all we have to deal with is this metastasising cancer.

Because MS, like most autoimmune diseases, is known to go into spontaneous remission even in people without a special diet.

Quick summary: Rheumatoid arthritis can be put into remission in some patients by stimulating the vagus nerve for some reason.

There are some heroic medicine case studies of an "immune system transplant", notably the remission of HIV, and perhaps this method could be made more viable.

It's especially bad when you try to identify things like centurions, or spontaneous remission of cancer - things which are rare are the most prone to statistical blips.

The odds of a person diagnosed with a terminal disease who goes into spontaneous remission having been previously misdiagnosed are quite a lot higher.

It's so colored the popular imagination of what addiction is and how to treat it that when the fact that the majority of people who are addicted to some substance do so by spontaneous remission, it seems surprising, even though that's what's normal.