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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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