remissionre‧mis‧sion /rɪˈmɪʃən/ noun 
The chemotherapy was successful, and she is now in remission. The cancer has gone into remission.2[countable, uncountable] British English a reduction of the time that someone has to spend in prison: He was given six months’ remission for good behaviour.3[uncountable] formal when you allow someone to keep the money they owe you: remission of debts4the remission of sins formal forgiveness from God for the bad things that you have done
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
- All these parameters were normal in patients with Crohn's disease in remission and in controls.
- Exacerbations and remissions of the pain are the general rule.
- In three of them, this diet was as effective as an elemental diet in achieving remission.
- She's now been in remission for two and a half years.
- Such protesters were refused alternative clothing and lost any remission of their sentence.
- The inflammatory cells were absent in the colonic mucosa of Crohn's disease patients examined in remission.
- The subsequent relapse rate after elemental diet induced remission, however, is greater than after treatment with prednisolone.
- There was no significant difference in the duration of remission between patients who did or did not identify food sensitivities.
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COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY The cancer has gone into remission.COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE
1[countable, uncountable] a period when a serious illness improves for a timein remission The cancer has gone into remission.· Also, treatment was considered unsuccessful when clinical remission was not achieved after four weeks.· He was referred in 1984 and had a full clinical remission with elemental diet and began single food reintroductions.· All patients with ulcerative colitis were in clinical remission and had normal levels of haemoglobin, C-reactive protein, and serum orosomucoid.· Almost all affected twins were in clinical remission.· They were otherwise in clinical remission.· Several case reports have suggested that oral cyclosporin is effective in inducing clinical and endoscopic remission.
· Patients who achieved complete remission underwent endoscopy with biopsies every six months.· Four are in a first complete remission and one in partial remission.· Altogether 57% responded and there were 20% complete remissions that extended to three years.· Cyclophosphamide monochemotherapy procures complete remission, with only slight morbidity, and remains effective against relapses.· A complete remission has been achieved; follow up was uneventful until current admission.· A complete remission was defined as the resolution of clinical, radiological, and endoscopic evidence of disease.
· Four are in a first complete remission and one in partial remission.· Even fee-paying pupils could, if parental circumstances entitled them, receive full or partial remission of fees at the public expense.· A partial remission was considered as a reduction in tumour mass of 50%.· The scheme provides for the partial remission of tuition fees to overseas postgraduate students of outstanding merit and research potential.
VERB· In four of them, the elemental diet was as effective as steroid treatment in achieving short term remission.· Patients who achieved complete remission underwent endoscopy with biopsies every six months.· Obstructive symptoms then resulted in a further small bowel resection but he did not achieve remission despite prednisolone.· Seventeen children failed to achieve remission but had chronic intestinal symptoms despite treatment throughout their course.· The remaining two patients did not achieve remission after four weeks of treatment.
· After five years of chemotherapy her thyroid cancer went into remission, though she still has to have annual checks.· I wanted to celebrate going into remission.· The girl in the single room, Donna Hazell, had leukaemia, but was going into remission.
The chemotherapy was successful, and she is now in remission. The cancer has gone into remission.2[countable, uncountable] British English a reduction of the time that someone has to spend in prison: He was given six months’ remission for good behaviour.3[uncountable] formal when you allow someone to keep the money they owe you: remission of debts4the remission of sins formal forgiveness from God for the bad things that you have done