(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.
Perennial
Definition:
(a.) ing or continuing through the year; as, perennial fountains.
(a.) Continuing without cessation or intermission; perpetual; unceasing; never failing.
(a.) Continuing more than two years; as, a perennial steam, or root, or plant.
(n.) A perennial plant; a plant which lives or continues more than two years, whether it retains its leaves in winter or not.
Example Sentences:
(1) Eighty micrograms of the topically active parasympatholytic drug ipratropium were applied intranasally four times daily in 20 adults with perennial rhinitis and severe watery rhinorrhoea in a double-blind controlled cross-over trial.
(2) consider the X-ray findings verified in 3 groups of subjects: with Hayfiber, with perennial rhinitis and the last one being a control group.
(3) Eleven children with severe perennial asthma and a poor clinical response to disodium cromoglycate were studied in a 4-month, double blind trial involving 1 month's treatment with placebo, disodium cromoglycate, betamethasone 17 valerate, and both drugs combined according to a predetermined random design.
(4) Cruden Farm, Victoria The 54-hectare Murdoch family estate in Langwarrin south of Melbourne, Australia, features magnificent gardens complete with ponds, lemon-scented gum trees and two walled gardens and perennial borders.
(5) In this study, the authors evaluate the inhalant substances of the house, emphasizing the importance of Dermatophagoides pteronyssinus to cause perennial allergic rhinitis.
(6) A panel of human CD4+ T cell clones specific for the house dust mite was isolated from an atopic individual with perennial rhinitis.
(7) Patients who had both perennial symptoms and summer seasonal exacerbations had a higher incidence of a positive family history of atopy and developed symptoms earlier in life than those patients who had summer seasonal or perennial symptoms only.
(8) Patients with perennial rhinitis had a more vigorous response than the controls.
(9) The immediate changes in regional ventilation and pulmonary blood flow were studied in seventeen adults with perennial asthma and in two control persons, who were challenged by histamine inhalation (histamine induced asthma (HIA)).
(10) Twenty-eight patients with allergic perennial rhinitis treated for 2 years with parenteral semidepot immunotherapy were divided into two groups of 14 patients: group A receiving conventional aerosol nebulization (TNE), and group B, which received TNAI using a type F aerosol electrocompressor.
(11) We have something to say and something to offer on perennial political dilemmas.
(12) Specificity was 87% for pollens and 90% for perennial antigens.
(13) Overnight, Russia has moved from perennial rival to trusted friend, while Nato’s future is in peril.
(14) More males than females had summer seasonal symptoms whereas more females than males had perennial symptoms.
(15) The old-fashioned dining room, unpretentious atmosphere, and the three-course menus under €30 make it a perennial favourite.
(16) But Howitt says that while it is a problem that so much farmland has shifted from more adjustable crops to perennials like almonds, he has a simpler solution: better management of groundwater.
(17) They are the identification of factors causing severe disease as opposed to heavy infection; the effects of seasonal as opposed to perennial transmission; and the importance of transplacental transmission of microfilariae or soluble antigens.
(18) Together with his late wife Janet, he wrote 37 titles including perennial favourites The Jolly Postman and Burglar Bill, and by himself he is the author of many more, including The Pencil, and Woof!
(19) It seems that perennial rhinitis probably arises from abundance of domestic antigens more than for the other allergic manifestations, as the nose is the first filter to receive foreign particles.
(20) However, PAC differed from SAC in several respects: a history of exacerbation on exposure to house dust (PAC 42 per cent; SAC none) and an association with perennial rhinitis (PAC 75 per cent; SAC 12 per cent) were more common in PAC.