DISCONTINUED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does discontinued mean? 

• DISCONTINUED (adjective)
  The adjective DISCONTINUED has 1 sense:

1. stopped permanently or temporarily

  Familiarity information: DISCONTINUED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DISCONTINUED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Stopped permanently or temporarily

Context example:

a discontinued conversation

Similar:

interrupted (discontinued temporarily)

out of print ((of books) no longer offered for sale by a publisher)

Antonym:

continued (without stop or interruption)

 Context examples 

Clevudine has a long half-life and shows significant reduction of covalently closed circular DNA (cccDNA), therefore the patient is less likely to have a relapse after treatment is discontinued.

(Clevudine, NCI Thesaurus)

The status of the subject's completion of the study or a segment of the study, or the reason the subject discontinued the study or segment of the study.

(CDISC SDTM Reason for Non-Completion Terminology, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

It was discontinued in favor of newer antifungals with fewer side effects.

(Haloprogin, NCI Thesaurus)

A chemotherapy regimen may have been discontinued for any reason (e.g. completion of therapy, toxicity, disease progression).

(Number of Prior Chemotherapies, NCI Thesaurus)

Its use was discontinued due to extreme side effects that included delirium, confusion, visual disturbances, hallucinations and violence; some evidence of long-term memory disorders and schizophrenia-like syndrome has been observed.

(Phencyclidine, NCI Thesaurus)

Procedure discontinued due to patient allergy to media/contrast (reported or reaction).

(Patient Allergic to Contrast Media, NCI Thesaurus/DICOM)

It is a pity, cried Fanny, that the custom should have been discontinued.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Due to no statistically-significant difference between standard triple-drug HIV therapies and the same therapy with capravirine, its development was discontinued by the developer.

(Capravirine, NCI Thesaurus)

When the subjects discontinued their red meat diet and moved to either a white meat or non-meat diet for another month, their TMAO levels decreased significantly.

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

But, finding me well employed, and bearing a good character, and hearing on all hands that I rose fast in the school, she soon discontinued these visits.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)