adj :  of, being, or involving the use of an antipsychotic < drugs>  < therapy>  < action> 
, n :  any of the powerful tranquilizers (as the phenothiazines or butyrophenones) used esp. to treat psychosis and believed to act by blocking dopamine nervous receptors - called also neuroleptic  .
 
   
 
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