| remit | To become less severe for a time without absolutely ceasing. Origin: see remission (05 Mar 2000) |
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| remittal | A remitting; a giving up; surrender; as, the remittal of the first fruits. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| remittence | A temporary amelioration, without actual cessation, of symptoms. (05 Mar 2000) |
| remittent | Remitting; characterised by remission; having remissions. <medicine> Remittent fever, a fever in which the symptoms temporarily abate at regular intervals, but do not wholly cease. See Malarial fever, under Malaria. Origin: L. Remittens, p. Pr., cf. F. Remittent. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| remittent fever | A fever pattern in which temperature varies during each 24 hour period, but never reaches normal. Most fevers are remittent and the pattern is not characteristic of any disease, although in the 19th century it was considered a diagnostic term. (05 Mar 2000) |
| remittent malaria | A malarial fever, usually of the severe falciparum type, in which the temperature falls but not to the normal level during the interval between two pronounced paroxysms. (05 Mar 2000) |