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.
Any abbreviation after the genus or species name, as in Mnium thomsonii Schimp. , indicates the person who first described the moss, in this case Wilhelm Phillipe Schimper, a French bryologist and paleobotanist (1808-1880).he bryologist, on the other hand, finds the Greek and Latin terms in moss names perfectly descriptive of things such as the growth habit, leaf formation around the stem, leaf color, or shape of the sporophyte or its parts.