What's the difference between demission and dimission?
Demission
Definition:
(n.) The act of demitting, or the state of being demitted; a letting down; a lowering; dejection.
(n.) Resignation of an office.
Example Sentences:
(1) A second short-term demission brought about more acceptable and steady skin conditions, especially in patients treated psychosomatically.
(2) The duration of prophylaxis is 3-8 days in 36% of centers, up to mobilisation in 31%, 9-16 days after operation in 17% and until demission in 16%.
(3) The house surgeon when writing his letter for the general practitioner after the patient is demissed uses a special form for postoperative complications.
(4) Complications until clinical demission were reviewed.
(5) Back in hospital after their short-term demission, two thirds of these patients showed a deterioration of their cutaneous condition.
Dimission
Definition:
(n.) Leave to depart; a dismissing.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the first case (80 years; probably the oldest in the geriatric literature) the infection provoked a very serious illness and the patient deceased three months after dimission, because of diminished resistance.
(2) In acute viral hepatitis the frequency of HBAg was 90% at the admittance to the hospital and 70% at the dimission, while CEP detected a frequency of 85% and 20% respectively.
(3) A major complication was represented by a complete atrioventricular block that occurred in 8 patients, in 5 of these the block disappeared before the dimission from the hospital.