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thymoleptic, a. (n.) Pharm.|θaɪməʊˈlɛptɪk|
[f. Gr. θῡµός soul, spirit + λῆψις seizing: see -ic.]
(Of or pertaining to) a psychic energizer (see psychic a. (n.) 1 a).
1959New Scientist 31 Dec. 1351/2 So novel are these [psychotherapeutic] drugs that even the scientific terms used to describe their action—ataractic, thymoleptic—have been coined within the past few years. Ibid. 1353/1 The psychotherapeutic drugs fall at present into two classes:..the major tranquillizers..and those that relieve psychotic depression—the psychic energizers or thymoleptics. 1967W. L. L. Rees Short Textbk. Psychiatry xxxii. 281 The tricyclic (thymoleptic) group of anti⁓depressants are quite dissimilar in chemical structure to the monoamine oxidase inhibitors. 1971H. B. Murphree in J. R. DiPalma Drill's Pharmacol. in Med. (ed. 4) xxiii. 437/2 A term used in Europe, thymoleptic..has not gained currency in North America. |