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antipsychotic

adj

Etymology

From anti- + psychotic.

  1. derived from ψύχωσις
  2. formed as psychotic — “psychosis + -tic”
  3. prefixed as antipsychotic — “anti + psychotic”

Definitions

  1. Preventing or counteracting psychosis.

  2. 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.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for antipsychotic. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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