remittencen.
/rᵻˈmɪt(ə)ns/, U.S. /rəˈmɪtns/, /riˈmɪtns/ Medicine. Now rare.
The quality (of a disease or symptom) of being remittent; cf. remittency n. Also: an abatement; remission (remission n. 5b).
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1719 T. Garlick Mech. Acct. Gonorrhæa 41 Where Caustical Poisons are applyed externally a Remittence of the Accidents ariseing from thence cannot be expected before the Removal of the Prime Cause.
1829 Edinb. New Philos. Jrnl. 9 211 In the arrangement of fevers, he assigned only a secondary rank to the phenomena of intermittence, remittence, or continuity.
1843 Provinc. Med. Jrnl. 6 264/1 Shivering and fever set in at this period, and slight remittences, or even intermittence, are occasionally observed.
1877 J. Sullivan Endemic Dis. Trop. Climates 28 The longer the duration of the paroxysm the greater the danger, and this long duration may transform intermittence into remittence.
1901 Practitioner Mar. 311 When the paroxysms return in the evening and are prolonged so that the intermission or remittence takes place in the morning, this fever may be easily mistaken for typhoid.
1987 Dermatologica 174 68 A normalization of prior defective antigen expression was observed in patients in remittence after GST therapy.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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