| 单词 | major tranquillizer |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmajor tranquillizer major tranquillizer n. Medicine any of a group of psychoactive drugs (now more commonly known as antipsychotics or neuroleptics) used chiefly to treat psychotic disorders, esp. schizophrenia. ΚΠ 1959 New Scientist 31 Dec. 1353/1 The psychotherapeutic drugs fall at present into two classes: those that mend schizophrenia—the major tranquillizers, ataractics and neuroleptics: and those that relieve psychotic depression. 1976 Amer. Jrnl. Psychiatry 133 83/1 Major tranquilizers included chlorpromazine, trifluoperazine, thiothixene, fluphenazine, prochlorperazine, acetophenazine, chlorprothixene, perphenazine, and haloperidol. 1991 E. Currie Dope & Trouble p. xxi Periodically, a nurse appears with a tray of medications, ranging from antibiotics for the endemic minor infections the kids bring to the Hall, to a battery of ‘antipsychotic’ drugs and major tranquilizers. < as lemmas |
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