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deprescribes

deprescribes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of deprescribe.

Meaning of deprescribe

Verb

deprescribe (third-person singular simple present deprescribes, present participle deprescribing, simple past and past participle deprescribed)

  1. (transitive) To cease to prescribe (a medicine); to encourage or help someone stop taking a prescription medication.
    • Estimates of effect size direction, while not attributable to a specific intervention or intervention type, were mixed with 47 % of trials being positive, 41 % negative, and 12 % undetermined, suggesting a lack of clarity regarding how to best deprescribe benzodiazepines and Z-drugs.2015 July 4, André S. Pollmann et al., “Deprescribing benzodiazepines and Z-drugs in community-dwelling adults: a scoping review”, in BMC Pharmacology & Toxicology, volume 16, →DOI

Questions about deprescribes

What is deprescribes the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Deprescribes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of deprescribe.

Words near deprescribes in the dictionary

  1. deprenylation
  2. depreotide
  3. deprepositional
  4. deprescribe
  5. deprescribed
  6. deprescribes
  7. deprescribing
  8. deprescription
  9. depreservation
  10. depresh
  11. depress

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