antipsychotic

adj 1noun 1

Collocations

ADJ.

atypical

VERB + ANTIPSYCHOTIC

giving, study, taking

ANTIPSYCHOTIC + NOUN

drugs, medicine, people

PREP.

about

Definitions

adj

Preventing or counteracting psychosis.

noun

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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Synonyms

noun — tranquilizer used to treat psychotic conditions when a calmi

neuroleptic

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

Example Bank

The antipsychotic medicine makes him very drowsy.

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Tom is taking an atypical antipsychotic.

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In the United States, the National Institute of Mental Health recently announced a new study about giving antipsychotic drugs to people with schizophrenia.

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