seponate

English edit

Etymology edit

See usage notes.

Verb edit

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

(medicine, rare, transitive, nonstandard, chiefly Scandinavian, chiefly in passive) To remove (a medication) from a patient's treatment.
- 1926, Acta Ophthalmologica‎^[1], 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,^[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, Lars A. Carlson et al., editors, Treatment of Hyperlipoproteinemia‎^[3], Raven Press, →ISBN, page 116:
  Note the prompt increase in cholesterol levels when treatment is seponated or dosage reduced.

Usage notes edit

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 edit

epostane, peastone, pentaose