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Cessation

  [se-sey-shuhn]
A cessation is a halt or discontinuity of a previously continous action. In medicine, a cessation is a common word to describe the halt of previous life habits affecting health, or cessations in respiration or the heart (namely respiratory arrest and cardiac arrest).
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