seponate

present singular third person seponates · participle present seponating · participle past seponated · past seponated

1. nonstandardraretransitivechiefly ScandinavianmedicineTo remove (a medication) from a patient's treatment.

   Note the prompt increase in cholesterol levels when treatment is seponated or dosage reduced.

   1984, Lars A. Carlson et al., editors, Treatment of Hyperlipoproteinemia, Raven Press, →ISBN, page 116

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   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.

   1926, Acta Ophthalmologica, volume 3, Munksgaard, page 231

   There was a striking connexion between periods of remission when the thyroid preparation was given, and exacerbations when the drug was seponated.

   1957, in Annales Paediatriae Fenniae, Volume 3, Issue 2, Duodecim, page 488