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terms | seponate |

As a noun terms

is .

As a verb seponate is

(medicine|rare|transitive|nonstandard|chiefly scandinavian|chiefly in passive) to remove (a medication) from a patient's treatment.

terms

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Noun

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    seponate

    English

    Verb

  • (medicine, rare, transitive, nonstandard, chiefly Scandinavian, chiefly in passive) To remove (a medication) from a patient's treatment.
  • * 1926 , in Acta Ophthalmologica , Volume 3, Munksgaard, page 231:
    • 16 patients had, according to order, been using myotics all the time before the after-examination. With 10 of those the drops could be seponated .
  • * 1957 , in Annales Paediatriae Fenniae , Volume 3, Issue 2, Duodecim, page 488:
    • There was a striking connexion between periods of remission when the thyroid preparation was given, and exacerbations when the drug was seponated .
  • * 1984 , in Lars A. Carlson et al. (editors), Treatment of Hyperlipoproteinemia , Raven Press, ISBN 9780890043417, page 116:
    • Note the prompt increase in cholesterol levels when treatment is seponated or dosage reduced.

    Usage notes

    * This term does not appear to be used by native English speakers; rather, it is found only in English works by Scandinavian authors, who apparently assume the existence of an English cognate for Norwegian seponere, Swedish seponera, German seponieren, and so on.