0 past simple and past participle of wean --
1 to cause a baby or young animal to stop feeding on its mother's milk and to start eating other food, especially solid food, instead: --
The neonates could be weaned from the ventilator within hours of starting this new therapeutic modality.
This may be due to the fact that many 12-23 month old children are being weaned, but are still unable to feed themselves independently.
Litters were weaned at 21 days of age in all lines.
It is the experience of many that these neonates cannot be weaned from ventilatory support after initial repair of the coarctation.
The patient was rewarmed and weaned off cardiopulmonary bypass without difficulty.
One was the patient with multiple rhabdomyomas who could not be weaned from extracorporeal circulation.
These cells are no longer required when the young are weaned, and are removed in a carefully orchestrated event called involution.
All were weaned from the second support but only three survived (38%).
