antipsychotic

English

Etymology

anti- +‎ psychotic

Adjective

antipsychotic (not comparable)

(pharmacology) Preventing or counteracting psychosis.

Synonyms

neuroleptic

Derived terms

antipsychotically

Translations

preventing or counteracting psychosis

Finnish: antipsykoottinen (fi)
Portuguese: antipsicótico
Spanish: antipsicótico

Noun

antipsychotic (plural antipsychotics)

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

Synonyms

neuroleptic

Hyponyms

See also Thesaurus:antipsychotic

Derived terms

atypical antipsychotic

Translations

any of a group of drugs used to treat psychosis

Czech: antipsychotikum n
Finnish: psykoosilääke, antipsykootti (fi)
German: Neuroleptikum (de) n
Portuguese: antipsicótico m
Russian: антипсихо́тик (ru) m (antipsixótik), нейроле́птик (ru) m (nejroléptik)
Serbo-Croatian: antipsihotik m, neuroleptik (sh) m
Spanish: antipsicótico m

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