English Explanatory Dictionary

antipsychotic

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Preventing or counteracting psychosis.
noun
  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.

Word forms

antipsychotic antipsychotics

Etymology

From anti- + psychotic.

Synonyms

antipsychosis neuroleptic antipsychotic

Derived words

antipsychotically atypical antipsychotic typical antipsychotic
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