INTERMISSION Copy link • INTERMISSIONintermissio (the giving up entirely for a time): omissio (the giving up entirely): cessatio (the resting; opposed to previous activity; often in a depreciating sense): intercapedo (interval during which anything is interrupted; interruption; e.g., intercapedinem scribendi facere, Cic.): interpellate (interruption of a speaker; hence interruption generally): Without any intermission, uno tenore, sine ulla intermissione: without any the least intermission, sine ulla minimi temporis intermissione (Cic.). In fevers, intermissio (total; remissio, being partial): decessio (opposed to accessio, Cels.): dies integri (on which the patient is without fever). After the first two days there follows an intermission of two days, finita febre biduum integrum est (Cels.): to have one day’s intermission, unum diem praestare integrum: in this fever there is no intermission, but only an occasional remission, hoc genus [febrium] non ex toto in remissione desistit, sed tantum levius est: the intermissions are longer, febris longiore circuitu redit (Cels.). To have intermissions, (ex toto) intermittere (Cels.); certum circuitum habere et ex toto remitti (Cels.); dies integros praestare (Cels.).