DISCONTINUATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does discontinuation mean? 

• DISCONTINUATION (noun)
  The noun DISCONTINUATION has 1 sense:

1. the act of discontinuing or breaking off; an interruption (temporary or permanent)

  Familiarity information: DISCONTINUATION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DISCONTINUATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of discontinuing or breaking off; an interruption (temporary or permanent)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

discontinuance; discontinuation

Hypernyms ("discontinuation" is a kind of...):

conclusion; ending; termination (the act of ending something)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "discontinuation"):

disfranchisement (the discontinuation of a franchise; especially the discontinuation of the right to vote)

disinheritance (the act by a donor that terminates the right of a person to inherit)

phase-out (the act or instance of a planned discontinuation)

prorogation (discontinuation of the meeting (of a legislative body) without dissolving it)

dismount (the act of dismounting (a horse or bike etc.))

Antonym:

continuation (the act of continuing an activity without interruption)

Derivation:

discontinue (prevent completion)

discontinue (put an end to a state or an activity)

 Context examples 

A reaction to a drug characterized by skin findings common to lupus including photosensitivity and butterfly rash; typically it resolves after drug discontinuation.

(Drug Induced Cutaneous Lupus Erythematosus, NCI Thesaurus)

A substance-abuse withdrawal syndrome in a fetus following maternal discontinuation or reduction of use of one or more addictive substance(s) that have caused fetal physiological dependence.

(In utero Drug Withdrawal, NICHD)

Damage of healthy intestinal cells is the main disadvantage of radiotherapy leading to the discontinuation and failure of efficient cancer treatment, potentially causing quick tumor recurrence.

(New Way Discovered for Protecting against High-Dose Radiation Damage, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Drug withdrawal symptoms in a fetus following maternal discontinuation or reduction of use of one or more addictive substance(s) that have caused fetal physiological dependence.

(In utero Drug Withdrawal, NCI Thesaurus)

Research on cancer survivors, covers the full spectrum of biomedical and psycho-social issues that arise at the point of discontinuation of cancer-specific therapy to the point of terminal diagnosis (6 months or less to live).

(Cancer Survivorship Research, NCI Thesaurus)

Scientists found that people who eat a diet rich in red meat have triple the TMAO levels of those who eat a diet rich in either white meat or mostly plant-based proteins, but discontinuation of red meat eventually lowers those TMAO levels.

(Study links frequent red meat consumption to high levels of chemical associated with heart disease, National Institutes of Health)