step down
B2CEFR level
58/100Rarity: uncommon
TechnicalRegister
To reduce treatment to a lower dose or milder drug once the condition is well controlled.
Once his asthma has been stable for three months, we can step down his inhaled steroid.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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