seponate

== English == === Etymology === See usage notes. === Verb === 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. 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. ==== 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