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neuroleptic
noun
(neu-ro-lep-tic)
antipsychotic
neuroleptic
noun
(neu-ro-lep-tic)
any of the powerful tranquilizers (such as the phenothiazines and butyrophenones) used especially to treat psychosis and believed to act by blocking dopamine nervous receptors —called also neuroleptic
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