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seponate

seponate verb: to remove (a medication) from a patient's treatment.

Verb

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

  1. (nonstandard, rare, transitive, chiefly Scandinavian) To remove (a medication) from a patient's treatment.
    • 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

Forms of seponate

third-person singular presentseponates
present participleseponating
past participleseponated
pastseponated

Origin of seponate

See usage notes.

Questions about seponate

What does seponate mean?
Seponate means to remove (a medication) from a patient's treatment.
What part of speech is seponate?
Seponate is a verb.
What is the past tense of seponate?
The past tense of seponate is seponated.

Words near seponate in the dictionary

  1. sepmag
  2. sepn.
  3. sepometer
  4. sepometers
  5. sepon
  6. seponate
  7. seponated
  8. seponates
  9. seponating
  10. seponation
  11. sepoose

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