seponateとは 意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

seponate ‎(三人称単数 現在形 seponates, 現在分詞 seponating, 過去形および過去分詞形 seponated)

1. (medicine, まれに, transitive, nonstandard, chiefly Scandinavian, chiefly in passive) To remove (a medication) from a patient's treatment.
   • 1926, in Acta Ophthalmologica, Volume 3,^[1] 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, in Lars A. Carlson et al. (editors), Treatment of Hyperlipoproteinemia,^[3] Raven Press, ISBN 9780890043417, page 116:

     Note the prompt increase in cholesterol levels when treatment is seponated or dosage reduced.

使用する際の注意点

• 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.