What's the difference between intermission and intermit?
Intermission
Definition:
(n.) The act or the state of intermitting; the state of being neglected or disused; disuse; discontinuance.
(n.) Cessation for a time; an intervening period of time; an interval; a temporary pause; as, to labor without intermission; an intermission of ten minutes.
(n.) The temporary cessation or subsidence of a fever; the space of time between the paroxysms of a disease. Intermission is an entire cessation, as distinguished from remission, or abatement of fever.
(n.) Intervention; interposition.
Example Sentences:
(1) No significant toxic side effects occurred and no refractoriness ensued during intermission between treatment periods.
(2) Marian Gaborik's goal meant that Chicago blew three leads in the game, something their fans can chew on during the intermission.
(3) Paroxysmal cerebellar ataxia (PCA) is a specific disease which exhibits spasmodic cerebellar ataxia but rarely shows abnormal neurological findings in the intermission.
(4) What does Alain Vigneault tell his Rangers during the intermission?
(5) The acute stage of the disease was observed in 76 patients, 73 patients were in the intermission period.
(6) The torpid process of chronic bronchitis, the two-phase pattern of the disease, dyspnea at 3-4 month intervals, intermissions, edema and failure of complex therapy with antibiotics and cardiac glycosides provided a tentative diagnosis of Legionella pneumonia with affection of the myocardium.
(7) The prospect hung that a bad call could decide everything hung in the air as the teams left for the second intermission.
(8) By the intermission, questions had begun to spread among the celebrity guests.
(9) Of these, 61 were investigated in depressive state, 15 in mania, 28 in intermission.
(10) These results clearly indicate that the prevention of the portal congestion improves recovery from energy metabolic disorder and, in addition, division of total ischemic time with moderate intermission is effective to diminish the metabolic disorder due to occlusion of both hepatic artery and portal vein.
(11) Their first period (after which they trailed 1-0) was so bad, they were booed off the ice as the intermission began.
(12) The clinical and social parameters of the prognosis in mental diseases first expressed after 40 years of age were on the whole lower but they reflected the modern tendency to attenuation of pathological manifestations: by the time of examination the status of 48% of patients was characterized by intermission or syndromes of a nonpsychotic level.
(13) During the intermission, between the horrors, the guests repaired to an upstairs room for coffee and biscuits.
(14) This procedure was repeated eight times in each rat with a 15-min intermission.
(15) Treatment with 3 days intermission showed the same favorable results as continuous application, although the amount of glucocorticoids applied was 75% less.
(16) Bilateral electrolytic lesions were made in various areas of hypothalamus or thalamus on the 6th day of a period of daily radioiodide injections (1 or 5 muCi125I-daily per animal) in male rats weighing about 350 g. Such injections were continued for another 4 days and after 2 days of intermission the blood thyroid hormone was acutely depleted by isovolemic exchange transfusion of thyroid hormone free blood cell suspension.
(17) In intermissions these changes were expressed either minimally or were absent altogether.
(18) It was an eight-hour play, I think, with two intermissions where you went out for dinner and came back.
(19) HDL-cholesterol, more specifically HDL2-cholesterol, reduced transiently during the 1st VLCD, intermission, and 2nd VLCD periods, and tended to increase in the 2nd LCD.
(20) After this intermission in arsenic exposure the urinary excretion of arsenic decreased to normal values, whereas the vasospastic reaction in the fingers remained.
Intermit
Definition:
(v. t.) To cause to cease for a time, or at intervals; to interrupt; to suspend.
(v. i.) To cease for a time or at intervals; to moderate; to be intermittent, as a fever.
Example Sentences:
(1) In 21 patients with ascertained intermitting block the pressure of the carotid sinus caused an asystolia during 3 seconds.
(2) Principle and method of the mathematico-statistical evaluation of an intermitting therapy are explained at the example of the cholestyramine treatment in incomplete obstruction of the bile ducts.
(3) Here, the two-phase regime is preferred with a continuous application of medicaments lasting for three months and following controlled phase with intermitting application of antituberculotics twice a week.
(4) Analgesia was produced by regularly intermitted 20 min of foot-shock action in Experiment II which evoke an opioid, humorally mediated mechanism.
(5) In the second half of the study under Trapidil in contrast to placebo a clinically relevant additional increase of the distance of the intermitent claudication was the result.
(6) For the first time the hormonal activity of a glomus jugulare tumour, clinically manifest by intermitting hypertension, could be demonstrated by catecholamine level determination in blood.
(7) Mechanic ventilators, and intermitent possitive pressure are recommended even though they have a posenous effect on the cardiac output.
(8) For the detection of intermitting blockings the pressure of the carotid sinus was used.
(9) After application of the drugs a rhythmically intermitting increased excretion of all enzymes mentioned develops.
(10) Two methods of the plasmapheresis were used: the intermitting plasmapheresis with use of a refrigeration centrifuge K-70 (GDR) and the permanent membrane plasma separation with the device A2008 RG of the firm "Fresenius" (FRG).
(11) Following symptoms may refer to: permanent or intermitting stridor in the stenoses of the large respiratory tract (trachea and main bronchi), that is diagnosed as the most frequent anomaly.
(12) Six observations are presented of patients receiving intermitent rifampicin treatment (900 mg twice weekly) that developed acute renal failure during treatment (4 cases) or when treatment was taken up again, after an interruption of 6 months (2 cases).
(13) Both patients developed rachitic manifestations since the first year of life, which persisted despite the administration of massive doses of vitamin D intermitently.
(14) Fourteen cases of patients with photoconvulsive response during intermitent luminous stimulation (eleven women and three men) are reviewed.
(15) In female patients with intermitting or permanent inclination to oedemas and intake of diuretics after exclusion of cardiac, renal, venous and lymphogenic causes should be thought of the clinical picture of the idiopathic and diuretic-induced oedema, respectively.
(16) There was no significant difference in the recurrence rate between children receiving "intermitent" as compared with no phenobarbital.
(17) In case of unsuccessful therapy or recurrence or chronicity the application of an intermitting topical or oral therapy is advised for an extended period of time, during or before the general symptoms, mainly premenstrually, occur.
(18) Disappearance of morphological hairy cells from peripheral blood correlated with reduction of B antigen cells, the patients continue to receive alpha interferon three times weekly and future follow-up of these patients will show if alpha interferon will confirm its effect on intermitent dose regimen.
(19) It is suggested that slowing of all ipsilateral saccades with gaze-paretic nystagmus corresponded to partial destruction of the PPRF, and that intermitted abduction palsy in the ipsilateral eye with adduction nystagmus in the fellow eye was due to intermittant dysfunction of the abducens nucleus.
(20) Furthermore we refer to the importance of the isotope nephrogram to recognize intermitting obstructions of the ureters.