Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A psychotropic drug, C17H20N4S, used to treat schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and acute psychosis.
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- noun An
antipsychotic drug used to treatschizophrenia andbipolar disease etc
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The olanzapine is your equivalent of the polio vaccine.
Henry’s Demons Patrick Cockburn 2011
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The olanzapine is your equivalent of the polio vaccine.
Henry’s Demons Patrick Cockburn 2011
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Zyprexa is the brand name for olanzapine, which is designed to attach to brain receptors to treat delusions and hallucinations.
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Zyprexa is the brand name for olanzapine, which is designed to attach to brain receptors to treat delusions and hallucinations.
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The FDA originally approved Zyprexa, also known by the chemical name olanzapine, in Sept. 1996 for the treatment of manifestations of psychotic disorders.
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Second-generation antipsychotic drugs, such as olanzapine, aripiprazole and others, are very powerful medications and were originally developed for treatment of schizophrenia, Hartung said.
THE MEDICAL NEWS 2010
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If symptoms of depression or mania persist in spite of treatment with other medications, adding an antipsychotic medication such as olanzapine
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If symptoms of depression or mania persist in spite of treatment with other medications, adding an antipsychotic medication such as olanzapine
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Those drugs - such as olanzapine (Zyprexa) and risperidone (Risperdal) - are used to treat schizophrenia and other mental illnesses and carry the side effect of weight gain.
FOXNews.com 2010
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Antipsychotic drugs, such as olanzapine (Zyprexa), risperidone (Risperdal) and quetiapine (Seroquel) ...
THE MEDICAL NEWS 2010
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