antipsychotic

English

Etymology

anti- +‎ psychotic

Adjective

antipsychotic (not comparable)

(pharmacology) Preventing or counteracting psychosis.

Synonyms

neuroleptic

Translations

preventing or counteracting psychosis

Finnish: antipsykoottinen

Portuguese: antipsicótico

Noun

antipsychotic (plural antipsychotics)

(pharmacology) Any of a group of drugs used to treat psychosis.

Synonyms

neuroleptic

Hyponyms

See also Thesaurus:antipsychotic

Translations

any of a group of drugs used to treat psychosis

Portuguese: antipsicótico m
Russian: антипсихо́тик (ru) m (antipsixótik), нейроле́птик (ru) m (nejroléptik)
Serbo-Croatian: antipsihotik m, neuroleptik (sh) m

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