antipsychotic

antipsychotic

English

Etymology

anti- +‎ psychotic

Adjective

antipsychotic (not comparable)

1. (pharmacology) Preventing or counteracting psychosis.

Synonyms

• neuroleptic

Translations

preventing or counteracting psychosis

Finnish: antipsykoottinen Portuguese: antipsicótico

Spanish: antipsicótico

Noun

antipsychotic (plural antipsychotics)

1. (pharmacology) Any of a group of drugs used to treat psychosis.

Synonyms

• neuroleptic

Hyponyms

• See also Thesaurus:antipsychotic

Translations

any of a group of drugs used to treat psychosis

Czech: antipsychotikum n Finnish: psykoosilääke, antipsykootti German: Neuroleptikum n Portuguese: antipsicótico m

Russian: антипсихо́тик (ru) m (antipsixótik), нейроле́птик (ru) m (nejroléptik) Serbo-Croatian: antipsihotik m, neuroleptik (sh) m Spanish: antipsicótico m