Neuroleptic

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Neuroleptic
TermNeuroleptic
Short definitionNeuroleptic - (pronounced) (NOOR-oh-LEP-tik AY-jent) type of medication used to treat symptoms of psychosis. These include hallucinations (images, sounds, smells, tastes, or touches that a person believes are real but are not real), delusions (false beliefs), and dementia (loss of the ability to think, remember, learn, make decisions). 
TypeCancer terms
SpecialtyOncology
LanguageEnglish
SourceNCI
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Neuroleptic - (pronounced) (NOOR-oh-LEP-tik AY-jent) type of medication used to treat symptoms of psychosis. These include hallucinations (images, sounds, smells, tastes, or touches that a person believes are real but are not real), delusions (false beliefs), and dementia (loss of the ability to think, remember, learn, make decisions). meet and solve problems). Most neuroleptics block the effects of certain chemicals in the nervous system. Also called antipsychotic and antipsychotic

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