Antipsychotic
| Antipsychotic | |
|---|---|
| Term | Antipsychotic |
| Short definition | antipsychotic (AN-tee-sy-KAH-tik) 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). |
| Type | Cancer terms |
| Specialty | Oncology |
| Language | English |
| Source | NCI |
| Comments | |
antipsychotic - (pronounced) (AN-tee-sy-KAH-tik) 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 antipsychotics block the effects of certain chemicals in the nervous system. Also called antipsychotic and neuroleptic
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