What's the difference between recension and rescission?

Recension


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of reviewing or revising; review; examination; enumeration.
  • (n.) Specifically, the review of a text (as of an ancient author) by an editor; critical revisal and establishment.
  • (n.) The result of such a work; a text established by critical revision; an edited version.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Seven patients with mobile right heart thrombi, 4 floating and 3 pediculated, were recensed between 1985 and 1990.
  • (2) This cooperative study recensed 89 cases of patients operated for aortic regurgitation in whom the dystrophic process was confirmed on anatomical (thin, translucent valves without symphysis, multilation or sclerosis) and histological criteria (mucinous infiltration).
  • (3) In order to assess its frequency and significance, a retrospective study of 8684 patients was undertaken: 24 cases (11 anterior and 13 posterior) were recensed.
  • (4) Eleven of 17 case histories recensed after an inquiry addressed to all the French university hospital cardiological departments were attributed to peripartum cardiomyopathy.
  • (5) Eighty-nine cases without aneurysm of the ascending thoracic aorta were recensed and analysed in a French Cooperative study.

Rescission


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of rescinding, abrogating, annulling, or vacating; as, the rescission of a law, decree, or judgment.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I asked for a categoric assurance that if any deal or scoping deal was done with the DUP there would be absolutely no rescission of LGBTI rights in the rest of the UK, in Great Britain, and that we would use any influence that we had to advance LGBTI rights in Northern Ireland .
  • (2) Every player in Spain has a formal rescission clause, registered with the league which fixes the amount at which a player can unilaterally end his contract and move to another club.

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