antipsychotic

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From anti- +‎ psychotic.

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antipsychotic (not comparable)

  1. (pharmacology) Preventing or counteracting psychosis.

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antipsychotic (plural antipsychotics)

  1. (pharmacology) 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.

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