interval cancer. interval cancer. A cancer whose presence is diagnosed in the time between scheduled screening tests, e.g., a breast cancer that is not detected by regular periodic mammography, professional examination, and self-breast exams. See also: cancer.
Verbum caro factum est, Ex virgine Maria. [Christmas.] This hymn exists in a great variety of texts. Leaving out of account the varieties of reading, which are very considerable, we may reckon at least five different forms. The two lines above are used in some cases as the introduction, and line 2 as the refrain.
In the Septuagint of the Old Testament it is used in the sense of consolation; but in 2 Maccabees 7:24, it is translated exhort, the Revised Version (British and American) appeal.. The verb parakaleo is also translated exhortation (1 Macc 13:3 the King James Version) and exhort (2 Maccabees 9:26).