INTERMISSION
\ˌɪntəmˈɪʃən], \ˌɪntəmˈɪʃən], \ˌɪ_n_t_ə_m_ˈɪ_ʃ_ə_n]\
Definitions of INTERMISSION
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical 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
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing 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
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1. A temporary cessation of symptoms or of any action. 2. An interval between two paroxysms of a disease, such as malaria.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
By William R. Warner
By Daniel Lyons
By James Champlin Fernald
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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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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