antipsychotic

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antipsychotic

adjective

  1. not comparable Preventing or counteracting psychosis.

    Similar: antipsychosis, neuroleptic

noun antipsychotics

  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.

    Similar: neuroleptic, antipsychotic

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adj preventing or counteracting psychosis

Españolantipsicótico
Portuguêsantipsicótico
Русскийантипсихоти́ческий antipsixotíčeskij

noun any of a group of drugs used to treat psychosis

Españolantipsicótico
Portuguêsantipsicótico
DeutschNeuroleptikum
Русскийантипсихо́тик antipsixótik, нейроле́птик nejroléptik

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@misc{antipsychotic_2026,
  title = {antipsychotic},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/antipsychotic},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}