REMISSION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does remission mean? 

• REMISSION (noun)
  The noun REMISSION has 4 senses:

1. an abatement in intensity or degree (as in the manifestations of a disease)

2. a payment of money sent to a person in another place

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

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

  Familiarity information: REMISSION used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REMISSION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An abatement in intensity or degree (as in the manifestations of a disease)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Synonyms:

remission; remittal; subsidence

Context example:

his cancer is in remission

Hypernyms ("remission" is a kind of...):

abatement; hiatus; reprieve; respite; suspension (an interruption in the intensity or amount of something)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "remission"):

resolution (the subsidence of swelling or other signs of inflammation (especially in a lung))

Derivation:

remit (diminish or abate)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A payment of money sent to a person in another place

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Synonyms:

remission; remitment; remittal; remittance

Hypernyms ("remission" is a kind of...):

payment (a sum of money paid or a claim discharged)

Sense 3

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

remission; remit; remitment

Hypernyms ("remission" is a kind of...):

referral (the act of referring (as forwarding an applicant for employment or referring a matter to an appropriate agency))

Domain category:

jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)

Derivation:

remit (refer (a matter or legal case) to another committee or authority or court for decision)

Sense 4

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

absolution; remission; remission of sin; remittal

Hypernyms ("remission" is a kind of...):

redemption; salvation ((theology) the act of delivering from sin or saving from evil)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "remission"):

indulgence (the remission by the pope of the temporal punishment in purgatory that is still due for sins even after absolution)

Holonyms ("remission" is a part of...):

penance (a Catholic sacrament; repentance and confession and atonement and absolution)

 Context examples 

A regimen consisting of cytarabine and thioguanine used as post remission maintenance treatment for acute myeloid leukemia.

(Cytarabine-Thioguanine Regimen, NCI Thesaurus)

People who achieve weight loss of 10% or more in the first five years following diagnosis with type 2 diabetes have the greatest chance of seeing their disease go into remission.

(Type 2 diabetes remission possible with ‘achievable’ weight loss, University of Cambridge)

It has a high remission rate with a median survival of approximately 60 months.

(B Lymphoblastic Lymphoma, NCI Thesaurus/WHO)

This type of AML is associated with good response to chemotherapy and high complete remission rate.

(Acute Myeloid Leukemia with t(8;21)(q22;q22); RUNX1-RUNX1T1, NCI Thesaurus/WHO)

Chronic infection often consists of acute episodes with remissions.

(Equine Infectious Anemia Virus, NCI Thesaurus)

The reemergence of a malignant neoplasm after a period of remission at the site of the original tumor or adjacent to it.

(Locally Recurrent Malignant Neoplasm, NCI Thesaurus)

A disease that does not go to remission despite treatment.

(Persistent Disease, NCI Thesaurus)

It has a long clinical course with relapses and remissions.

(Pars Planitis, NCI Thesaurus)

The remission can be temporary or permanent.

(Myasthenia Gravis, NIH: National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke)

Once the leukemia is in remission, you need additional treatment to make sure that it does not come back.

(Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia, NIH: National Cancer Institute)