Medical Dictionary
2antipsychotic
noun
Medical Definition of ANTIPSYCHOTIC
: any of the powerful tranquilizers (as the phenothiazines or butyrophenones) used especially to treat psychosis and believed to act by blocking dopamine nervous receptors—called also neuroleptic
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