ANTIPSYCHOTIC


Meaning of ANTIPSYCHOTIC in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ ˌan-tē-sī-ˈkä-tik ]

noun

Date: 1966

: any of the powerful tranquilizers (as the phenothiazines and butyrophenones) used especially to treat psychosis and believed to act by blocking dopamine nervous receptors — called also neuroleptic

• antipsychotic adjective

Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary.      Энциклопедический словарь английского языка Merriam Webster.