Remission Explained

Remission should not be confused with Remittance.

Remission often refers to:

• Forgiveness

Remission may also refer to:

Healthcare and science

• Remission (medicine), the state of absence of disease activity in patients with a chronic illness, with the possibility of return of disease activity
• Remission (spectroscopy), the reflection or scattering of light by a material

Law

• Clemency, the reduction of a prison sentence
• Remand (court procedure), legal proceedings by which a case is sent back to a lower court from which it was appealed, with instructions for further proceedings

Music

• Remission (EP), a 1984 extended play record by Skinny Puppy
• Remission (Mastodon album), the debut album by the American metal band Mastodon

See also

• Re-Mission, a 2006 video game for young cancer patients
• Remittance