antipsychotic

English

Etymology

anti- +‎ psychotic

Adjective

antipsychotic (not comparable)

1. (pharmacology) Preventing or counteracting psychosis.

Synonyms

• neuroleptic

Translations

preventing or counteracting psychosis

• Finnish: antipsykoottinen (fi)
• 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

Derived terms

• atypical antipsychotic

Translations

any of a group of drugs used to treat psychosis

• Czech: antipsychotikum n
• Finnish: psykoosilääke, antipsykootti (fi)
• German: Neuroleptikum (de) n
• Portuguese: antipsicótico m
• Russian: антипсихо́тик (ru) m (antipsixótik), нейроле́птик (ru) m (nejroléptik)
• Serbo-Croatian: antipsihotik m, neuroleptik (sh) m
• Spanish: antipsicótico m