seponate

seponate

English

Etymology

See usage notes.

Verb

seponate (third-person singular simple present seponates, present participle seponating, simple past and past participle seponated)

1. (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, 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.

Anagrams

• epostane, peastone, pentaose