What's the difference between intercession and mediate?

Intercession


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of interceding; mediation; interposition between parties at variance, with a view to reconcilation; prayer, petition, or entreaty in favor of, or (less often) against, another or others.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) They might be changed by divine intervention, but not by human intercession.
  • (2) Eventually Mubarak recalled Shenouda to the papal seat after intercession by visiting clerics, including Graham Leonard , then Anglican bishop of London.
  • (3) Though Peres’s diplomatic intercession smoothed ruffled feathers, he still warned against a nuclear Iran “taking over the Middle East” and rejected the critical UN report into the Gaza war.
  • (4) Although her son Anthony was already living in the US, she was initially refused permission even to disembark, and was only allowed a day pass to spend that Christmas with her son on the intercession of Eleanor Roosevelt.
  • (5) The only solution is the intercession of an unbiased influence to work out the problem from a point of view that is unaffected by such turmoils which are often inherent in the system.
  • (6) A careful obstetrical history and examination of the mother, indication on the birth certificate of maternal drug abuse, and notification of health authorities (by birth certificate checking, among other ways) may send an early warning message to providers for intercession.
  • (7) However, there are occasions where the individual tooth, teeth, or the arches are so aligned that the pulpal, gingival, or osseous tissues would be jeopardized by the conventional restorative intercession.
  • (8) The midwives of the past failed to stop the growth of obstetrics, and their contemporaries through the intercession of the 1951 Midwifery Act attempted to block entry into the profession by male nurses.

Mediate


Definition:

  • (a.) Being between the two extremes; middle; interposed; intervening; intermediate.
  • (a.) Acting by means, or by an intervening cause or instrument; not direct or immediate; acting or suffering through an intervening agent or condition.
  • (a.) Gained or effected by a medium or condition.
  • (a.) To be in the middle, or between two; to intervene.
  • (a.) To interpose between parties, as the equal friend of each, esp. for the purpose of effecting a reconciliation or agreement; as, to mediate between nations.
  • (v. t.) To effect by mediation or interposition; to bring about as a mediator, instrument, or means; as, to mediate a peace.
  • (v. t.) To divide into two equal parts.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Stimulation of human leukocytes with various chemical mediators such as TPA, f-Met-Leu-Phe, LTB4, etc.
  • (2) Fibulin is a potential mediator of interactions between adhesion receptors and the cytoskeleton.
  • (3) Patients with papillary carcinoma with a good cell-mediated immune response occurred with much lower infiltration of the tumor boundary with lymphocyte whereas the follicular carcinoma less cell-mediated immunity was associated with dense lymphocytic infiltration, suggesting the biological relevance of lymphocytic infiltration may be different for the two histologic variants.
  • (4) The hypothesis that proteins are critical targets in free radical mediated cytolysis was tested using U937 mononuclear phagocytes as targets and iron together with hydrogen peroxide to generate radicals.
  • (5) We have investigated the effect of methimazole (MMI) on cell-mediated immunity and ascertained the mechanisms of immunosuppression produced by the drug.
  • (6) We determined whether serological investigations can assist to distinguish between chronic idiopathic autoimmune thrombocytopenia (cAITP) and immune-mediated thrombocytopenia in patients at risk to develop systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE); 82 patients were seen in this institution for the evaluation of immune thrombocytopenia.
  • (7) IgE-mediated acute systemic reactions to penicillin continue to be an important clinical problem.
  • (8) This induction is sensitive to actinomycin D but not to protein synthesis inhibitor puromycin, indicating an effect of estradiol at the transcriptional level, possibly mediated by the estrogen receptor.
  • (9) We sought additional evidence for an inverse relationship between functional CTL-target cell affinity on the one hand, and susceptibility of the CTL-mediated killing to inhibition by alpha LFA-1 and alpha Lyt-2,3 monoclonal antibodies on the other hand.
  • (10) Mannose receptor mediated uptake by the reticuloendothelial system has been suggested as an explanation for the rapid removal of ricin A chain antibody conjugates from the circulation after their administration.
  • (11) However, direct measurements of mediator release should be carried out to reach a firm conclusion.
  • (12) In addition to their involvement in thrombosis, activated platelets release growth factors, most notably a platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF) which may be the principal mediator of smooth muscle cell migration from the media into the intima and of smooth muscle cell proliferation in the intima as well as of vasoconstriction.
  • (13) Glutathion peroxidase and p-phenylenediamide-mediated peroxidase (PPD-peroxidase) were normal in leucocytes of 1 HPS patient.
  • (14) But MH162 was more effective than MRK16 in lymphocyte-mediated lysis of the MDR cells.
  • (15) Thus, human bronchial epithelial cells can express the IL-8 gene, with expression in response to the inflammatory mediator TNF regulated mainly at the transcriptional level, and with elements within the 5'-flanking region of the gene that are directly or indirectly modulated by the TNF signal.
  • (16) Tumour necrosis factor (TNF), a polypeptide produced by mononuclear phagocytes, has been implicated as an important mediator of inflammatory processes and of clinical manifestations in acute infectious diseases.
  • (17) From these results, it was suggested that the inhibitory effect of Cd on in vitro calcification of MC3T3-E1 cells may be due to both a depression of cell-mediated calcification and a decrease in physiochemical mineral deposition.
  • (18) injection of various inflammatory mediators, the vasopressor effect of i.a.
  • (19) It is concluded that fibroblast replication is an important mechanism leading to the pathologic fibrosis seen in graft versus host disease and, by analogy, probably other types of immunologically mediated fibrosis.
  • (20) The authors followed up the occurrence of inflammation-mediated osteopenia (IMO) in young and adult rats weighing 50 g and 150 g, respectively.