(v. t.) To make less severe, intense, harsh, rigorous, painful, etc.; to soften; to meliorate; to alleviate; to diminish; to lessen; as, to mitigate heat or cold; to mitigate grief.
(v. t.) To make mild and accessible; to mollify; -- applied to persons.
Example Sentences:
(1) In mitigation, Gareth Jones, defending, said: "The first comment [he] wrote was in relation to Fabrice Muamba.
(2) The small numbers involved (29) and the difficulties in matching subjects may have mitigated against demonstrating a statistically significant difference between the two groups.
(3) The news comes one week after Marshall announced, in an email to staff, that there would be a shift in research priorities, away from understanding the nature of climate change, and towards adaptation and mitigation.
(4) Golding said the government would not soften its stance on drug trafficking and it intended to use a proportion of revenues from its licensing authority to support a public education campaign to discourage pot-smoking by young people and mitigate public health consequences.
(5) This has improved the capacity of the neuroanaesthetist to mitigate the inevitable fluctuations which occur and prevent their ill effects.
(6) The survey was designed to assess whether these individuals followed the 1986 EPA guidelines for follow-up testing and mitigation.
(7) Despite doing a study of mitigation options, no decisions are planned until 2012.
(8) The level of disruption to services will vary widely and depend on the number of staff joining the strike, the mitigating impact of the NHS’s contingency planning and how many patients need acute care, such as A&E care or surgery.
(9) Aid workers have warned that children in the disaster zone left by typhoon Haiyan are particularly vulnerable, as they set up child-focused services to mitigate the impact.
(10) Regression analyses suggested that such aggression-inhibitory effects of an apology were mediated by impression improvement, emotional mitigation, and reduction in desire for an apology within the victims.
(11) At present, however, technical and economic factors combine to mitigate against MRI.
(12) The IPCC is charged with providing a scientific, balanced assessment about what's known and what's known about climate change There are lots of organisations ringing bells The IPCC is more like a belltower, which people can climb up to get a clear view 8.41am BST Al Gore , the former US vice-president and winner of the Nobel peace prize for his work on climate change , has responded to the IPCC report by saying it shows the need for a switch to low carbon sources of energy (note his emphasis is on mitigation, i.e.
(13) Potential strategies to avoid the precipitating antigen antibody reaction or to mitigate the resulting effector cascade are described.
(14) The results of this study serve to mitigate concern over the possible carcinogenicity of MDA in the diet, since less than 10% of the MDA in several foods containing highly unsaturated fatty acids was found in the free form.
(15) The deputy president, William Ruto, said it is now up to the developed world to mitigate the fallout, suggesting that other countries including the UK should resettle the refugees who could soon be kicked out of Kenya.
(16) Application of the formula in 3 patients with the juvenile CLF, the M. Batten-Spielmeyer-Vogt, resulted in a mitigated course of the disease.
(17) "The one thing that we have come up with is the importance of adaptation and mitigation choices.
(18) There is an art as well as a science to accurately presenting devastating facts while mitigating potentially unnecessary emotional damage.
(19) The issue is the capacity of the law to mitigate it.
(20) Delivery of oxygenated autologous blood to the myocardium at risk during inflation may help mitigate this ischemia.
Remission
Definition:
(n.) The act of remitting, surrendering, resigning, or giving up.
(n.) Discharge from that which is due; relinquishment of a claim, right, or obligation; pardon of transgression; release from forfeiture, penalty, debt, etc.
(n.) Diminution of intensity; abatement; relaxation.
(n.) A temporary and incomplete subsidence of the force or violence of a disease or of pain, as destinguished from intermission, in which the disease completely leaves the patient for a time; abatement.
(n.) The act of sending back.
(n.) Act of sending in payment, as money; remittance.
Example Sentences:
(1) Definite tumor regression, improvement of some clinical symptoms, and continuous remission over 6 mo or more were observed in six, nine, and three patients, respectively.
(2) One hundred and ninety-nine children aged 7-14 and 177 adolescents in remission and minimal manifestations of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) were examined before and after fangotherapy with allowance for activity of the process, age-related reactivity.
(3) The plasma levels of atrial natriuretic factor (ANF) were measured both during relapse and remission in 8 patients with idiopathic, minimal-lesion nephrotic syndrome.
(4) The objective remission rate was 67%, and a subjective response was observed in 75% of all cases.
(5) With a median follow-up of 6 years, 32 (20%) of 156 patients who achieved complete remission have relapsed.
(6) Therefore, a mortality analysis of overall survival time alone may conceal important differences between the forces of mortality (hazard functions) associated with distinct states of active disease, for example pre-remission state and first relapse.
(7) Seven patients relapsed after a CY-induced remission, but 5 of them became steroid responsive.
(8) Many reports of thyroid stimulating immunoglobulins (TSI) in relation to treatment of Graves' disease have been published and with variable results concerning prediction of permanent remission or relapse after therapy.
(9) The purpose of this study was to investigate a tumor cell vaccine delivered via peripheral lymphatics as maintenance therapy after induction of remission with chemotherapy.
(10) If severe seizures were prevented by antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) there was complete remission of the syndrome and repeat injection was necessary to reinitiate seizures.
(11) About 10% of the patients treated had “complete remission”, with no detectable cancer remaining - considered a cure if the patient is still cancer-free five years after diagnosis.
(12) In conclusion, not only TBII but also T3 release-stimulating antibodies may occur in a minority of patients with long-term remission of Graves' hyperthyroidism.
(13) In total, 22 out of 29 patients (76%) obtained remission.
(14) We observed complete remissions in five patients and partial remissions in 54, for a total remission rate.
(15) With a minimum review period of 6 months complete remission of synovitis was obtained in 20%, while 63% gained symptomatic relief, with some reduction of synovitis.
(16) A new feature is the highly effectiveness of all-trans retinoic acid treatment, a vitamin A derivative, for inducing complete remission in patients.
(17) The impact of this activation on the remission rate and duration, as well as survival in patients with NHL, warrants further investigation.
(18) Antiplatelet factors disappear upon achieving a clinical and hematological remission.
(19) Age at diagnosis (greater than or equal to 60 years vs less than or equal to 60 years), total number of involved sites, tumor bulk (mass size greater than or equal to 10 cm vs less than 10 cm), serum LDH (greater than or equal to 500 Units) and prompt achievement of complete remission following intensive combination regimens appear to be the most important variables predicting for cure in aggressive lymphomas.
(20) Standard criteria for staging and response evaluation, including pathologic documentation of remission status, are crucial.