antipsychotic
Any of a group of drugs used to treat psychosis or other conditions, chiefly one that…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.
Meaning
1 sensesAny 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.
Neuroleptikum
антипсихо́тикantipsixótik, нейроле́птикnejroléptik
- tranquilizer used to treat psychotic conditions when a calming effect is desired
Examples
6 sentencesTom is taking an atypical antipsychotic.
Mennad needed to be put on antipsychotics.
The antipsychotic medicine makes him very drowsy.
Antipsychotics are often used to survive both mental and physical prisons.
Tom's going back on antipsychotics.
Translations
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Forms
plural: antipsychotics| Singular | antipsychotic |
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Synonyms
9 synonyms- tranquilizer used to treat psychotic conditions when a calming effect is desired:major tranquilizermajor tranquillizermajor tranquilliserantipsychotic drugantipsychotic agentneuroleptic drugneuroleptic agentneuroleptic