Remission
Definition of Remission
Re`mis´sion Pronunciation: r?-m?sh´?n | n. | 1. | The act of remitting, surrendering, resigning, or giving up. | | 2. | Discharge from that which is due; relinquishment of a claim, right, or obligation; pardon of transgression; release from forfeiture, penalty, debt, etc. | | 3. | Diminution of intensity; abatement; relaxation. | | 4. | (Med.) A temporary and incomplete subsidence of the force or violence of a disease or of pain, as destinguished from intermission, in which the disease completely leaves the patient for a time; abatement. | | 5. | The act of sending back. | | 6. | Act of sending in payment, as money; remittance. |
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