A medication (or another measure) that is believed to be effective in the treatment of psychosis. For example, aripiprazole (Abilify) is an antipsychotic medication used to treat schizophrenia.

A type of drug used to treat symptoms of psychosis. These include hallucinations (sights, sounds, smells, tastes, or touches that a person believes to be real but are not real), delusions (false belie [..]

tranquilizer (pop)

An Antipsychotic is a class of medication used in psychiatry to manage psychotic symptoms such as delusions, hallucinations and disordered thinking that are frequently associated with schizophrenia an [..]

(n) tranquilizer used to treat psychotic conditions when a calming effect is desired

A drug used to treat schizophrenia and other severe mental health disorders; relieves symptoms such as delusions and hallucinations.

Illustrated Glossary of Organic Chemistry Antipsychotic: A pharmaceutical used to manage psychosis. Molecular structure of aripiprazole (Abilify), a best-selling antipsychotic. Related terms: Drug, an [..]

<pharmacology> A drug that is effective in the treatment of psychosis. Antipsychotic drugs (also called neuroleptic drugs and major tranquillisers) are a chemically diverse (including phenothiazines, thioxanthenes, butyrophenones, dibenzoxazepines, dibenzodiazepines and diphenylbutylpiperidines) but pharmacologically similar class of drugs us [..]