INTERMISSION
\ˌɪntəmˈɪʃən], \ˌɪntəmˈɪʃən], \ˌɪ_n_t_ə_m_ˈɪ_ʃ_ə_n]\
Definitions of INTERMISSION
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
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- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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By Princeton University
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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The act or the state of intermitting; the state of being neglected or disused; disuse; discontinuance.
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Cessation for a time; an intervening period of time; an interval; a temporary pause; as, to labor without intermission; an intermission of ten minutes.
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The temporary cessation or subsidence of a fever; the space of time between the paroxysms of a disease. Intermission is an entire cessation, as distinguished from remission, or abatement of fever.
By Oddity Software
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The act or the state of intermitting; the state of being neglected or disused; disuse; discontinuance.
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Cessation for a time; an intervening period of time; an interval; a temporary pause; as, to labor without intermission; an intermission of ten minutes.
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The temporary cessation or subsidence of a fever; the space of time between the paroxysms of a disease. is an entire cessation, as distinguished from remission, or abatement of fever.
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By William R. Warner
By Daniel Lyons
By James Champlin Fernald
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The interval which occurs between two paroxysms of an intermittent or other disease- during which the patient is almost in his natural state. There is said to be intermission of the pulse, when, in a given number of pulsations, one or more may be wanting.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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