Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An antipsychotic drug used as a sedative and in the treatment of schizophrenia.
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- noun An
antipsychotic drug used in the treatment ofschizophrenia etc.
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- noun an antipsychotic drug (trade name Clozaril) used as a sedative and for treatment-resistant schizophrenia; know to have few side effects
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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I went back to the Grove, where the doctor suggested I take a new drug called clozapine.
Henry’s Demons Patrick Cockburn 2011
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I went back to the Grove, where the doctor suggested I take a new drug called clozapine.
Henry’s Demons Patrick Cockburn 2011
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He then returned to Anselm ward at St. Martin’s, where he was supposedly taking a newly prescribed anti-psychotic called clozapine, which seemed to have a positive impact.
Henry’s Demons Patrick Cockburn 2011
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He then returned to Anselm ward at St. Martin’s, where he was supposedly taking a newly prescribed anti-psychotic called clozapine, which seemed to have a positive impact.
Henry’s Demons Patrick Cockburn 2011
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His worst breakdowns and brainstorms—which he later nicknamed his “polka-dot days,” though the phrase does not quite convey the terrors which then seemed to possess him—mostly struck him when he was secretly not taking the clozapine.
Henry’s Demons Patrick Cockburn 2011
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A second disappointment was equally serious: We assumed that the staff at Fitzmary 2, more numerous and better trained than at DVH, would be able to persuade him to take the clozapine.
Henry’s Demons Patrick Cockburn 2011
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Only one antipsychotic—clozapine, available as a generic drug—has been shown in clinical trials to be effective for Parkinson's psychosis symptoms, but Dr. Weintraub and his colleagues found that only 2% of patients were being prescribed this medication.
Drug Concerns in Parkinson's Shirley S. Wang 2011
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The only way to get him to take the clozapine was to sit with him until he did so, which might be a matter of hours.
Henry’s Demons Patrick Cockburn 2011
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Despite these mishaps, Cygnet succeeded in increasing the amount of clozapine Henry received and in breaking the vicious circle of one step forward, two steps back, whereby Henry would make a slow partial recovery and then suffer an acute relapse.
Henry’s Demons Patrick Cockburn 2011
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These were to stop him running away—much more difficult for him to do at Cygnet than elsewhere—and to ensure that he took his clozapine, the only anti-psychotic drug which appeared to do him any good.
Henry’s Demons Patrick Cockburn 2011
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