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.
  • (4) Yesterday top US officials stated that a legal deal was all but impossible in the Danish capital and the president of the European commission, José Manuel Barroso, also dimissed the idea of a legally binding treaty.

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