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Antipsychotic

adj, noun

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Preventing or counteracting psychosis. not-comparable
Noun
  1. 1
    Any of a group of drugs used to treat psychosis or other conditions, chiefly one that acts as an antagonist, partial agonist, or inverse agonist of dopamine receptors in the synapses.
  2. 2
    tranquilizer used to treat psychotic conditions when a calming effect is desired wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

From anti- + psychotic.

Etymology 2

From anti- + psychotic.

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