What's the difference between backcast and relapse?
Backcast
Definition:
(n.) Anything which brings misfortune upon one, or causes failure in an effort or enterprise; a reverse.
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Relapse
Definition:
(v. i.) To slip or slide back, in a literal sense; to turn back.
(v. i.) To slide or turn back into a former state or practice; to fall back from some condition attained; -- generally in a bad sense, as from a state of convalescence or amended condition; as, to relapse into a stupor, into vice, or into barbarism; -- sometimes in a good sense; as, to relapse into slumber after being disturbed.
(v. i.) To fall from Christian faith into paganism, heresy, or unbelief; to backslide.
(v.) A sliding or falling back, especially into a former bad state, either of body or morals; backsliding; the state of having fallen back.
(v.) One who has relapsed, or fallen back, into error; a backslider; specifically, one who, after recanting error, returns to it again.
Example Sentences:
(1) Nine of 14 patients studied for documented clinical relapse had positive repeat studies.
(2) The most common reasons cited for relapse included craving, social situations, stress, and nervousness.
(3) Mitoses of nuclei of myocytes of the left ventricle of the heart observed in two elderly people who had died of extensive relapsing infarction are described.
(4) Due to continued disease relapse in this group (four of eight patients), long-term survivors should not be identified for a minimum of 3.5 years from the time of initial therapy.
(5) The plasma levels of atrial natriuretic factor (ANF) were measured both during relapse and remission in 8 patients with idiopathic, minimal-lesion nephrotic syndrome.
(6) With a median follow-up of 6 years, 32 (20%) of 156 patients who achieved complete remission have relapsed.
(7) In Stage I, seven relapses (relapse rate 6%) occurred after irradiation; three of them were cured with second-line therapies.
(8) The relapse was 80% in the sagittal plane, 70% in the transverse plane, and 12% in the vertical plane.
(9) Therefore, a mortality analysis of overall survival time alone may conceal important differences between the forces of mortality (hazard functions) associated with distinct states of active disease, for example pre-remission state and first relapse.
(10) High concordance was observed between a positive test and relapse during the period of study (chi-square = 27.53, P less than 0.001).
(11) These results suggest that a lowered basal energy expenditure and a reduced glucose-induced thermogenesis contribute to the positive energy balance which results in relapse of body weight gain after cessation of a hypocaloric diet.
(12) Between January 1979 and April 1983, 113 children undergoing their first relapse of acute lymphoid leukemia (ALL) at any site were registered in Pediatric Oncology Group study 7834; 98 were eligible and evaluable.
(13) We measured CSF immunoreactive myelin basic protein (MBP), a marker of acute myelin damage, and sIL-2R levels in the CSF from 11 patients with active relapsing remitting (RR) MS, five with stable RR MS, eight with chronic progressive (CP) MS, five with other neurologic diseases, and three normal controls.
(14) Of all solid tumors only nine occurred in relapse-free patients.
(15) Seven patients relapsed after a CY-induced remission, but 5 of them became steroid responsive.
(16) Many reports of thyroid stimulating immunoglobulins (TSI) in relation to treatment of Graves' disease have been published and with variable results concerning prediction of permanent remission or relapse after therapy.
(17) Surgical and pathologic staging can identify a subset of surgically treated rectal cancer patients at high risk for tumor relapse and death.
(18) These results suggest that the bacterium may not play an important pathogenetic role in ulcer healing and relapse, when patients are managed using an H2-blocker.
(19) Several treatment regimes were assessed, and of these it appeared that sulphamethizole 1g three times a day was most effective, both in terms of a lower rate of relapse of infection and also a low incidence of side effects.
(20) After effective treatment the level fell and rose again 10 months prior to the conventional clinical diagnosis of relapse.