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Definition: Psychotropic |
PsychotropicAdjective1. Affecting the mind or mood or other mental processes; "psychoactive drugs". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Health | Exerting an effect upon the mind; capable of modifying mental activity; usually applied to drugs that effect the mental state. (references) |
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Synonym: PsychotropicSynonym: psychoactive (adj). (additional references) |
| Antonym: nonpsychoactive (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Psychotropic |
| Specialty definitions using "psychotropic": Dizocilpine Maleate ♦ Lofepramine ♦ Psychotropic Drugs. (references) |
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Health | Studies to determine the effects of psychotropic therapy on cognitive function and school performance. (references) | |
S. Concentration-effect relationship of delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol and prediction of psychotropic effects after smoking marijuana. (references) | ||
Concomitantly administered medications such as psychotropic and antiemetic medications should be evaluated for their xerogenic potential. (references) | ||
Business | A number of laws, including a Law on Health Care Insurance, a Law on Medicines, and a Law on Psychotropic Substances have been adopted recently and improved the understanding of the current health care market and procedures and regulations. (references) | |
Economic History | Ethiopia | Other traditional major agricultural exports are hides and skins, pulses, oilseeds, and the traditional "khat," a leafy shrub which has psychotropic qualities when chewed. (references) |
Russia | Best prospects for U.S. exports include cardiovascular, cancer, asthma, neurological and hormonal drugs, insulins, antibiotics, analgetics, vitamins, and psychotropic drugs. (references) | |
Bolivia | Former President Bill Clinton certified to the Congress in 2000 that Bolivia is cooperating fully with the U.S. on counternarcotics matters or has taken steps on its own to achieve full compliance with the 1988 UN Convention Against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances. (references) | |
Human Rights | Armenia | According to his report, Haryutyunian also stated that he was given psychotropic substances and that his family was threatened. (references) |
Political Economy | ECUADOR | Imports of psychotropic medicines and certain precursor chemicals used in narcotics processing require prior authorization from the National Drug Council (CONSEP). (references) |
Trade | Hungary | Furthermore products which are typically controlled in the United States and other western countries such as arms/ammunition, military equipment, hazardous materials, materials for biological weapons, psychotropic products and drug precursors, special paper types used for banknotes and securities, nuclear products and uranium ore are similarly controlled in Hungary. (references) |
Travel | Pakistan | This exemption does not apply to narcotics, psychotropic and other similar drugs. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Psychotropic" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 94.87% of the time. "Psychotropic" is used about 39 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 94.87% | 37 | 56,631 |
| Noun (proper) | 5.13% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 39 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "psychotropic": psychotropic agent ♦ psychotropic drug ♦ Psychotropic Drugs. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
psychotropic medication | 75 |
psychotropic drug | 51 |
psychotropic | 22 |
medicine psychotropic | 5 |
meds psychotropic | 4 |
herb psychotropic | 4 |
mushroom psychotropic | 3 |
list medication psychotropic | 3 |
drug medication psychotropic | 2 |
drug list psychotropic | 2 |
plant psychotropic | 2 |
effects medication psychotropic side | 2 |
definition psychotropic | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "psychotropic"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 治疗精神病. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | psykotrop, psykofarmakologisk, psykofarmaka. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | psychotroop. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | psykotrooppinen, psykoaktiivinen. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | psychotrope (a et sm), psychotrope (psychoactive drug, psychotropic drug). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | psychotrop. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ψυχοτρόπος. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | pszichotróp. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | psicotropo (mood-altering drug, psychotropic drug). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 向精神薬 (psychotropic drug). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | "うせいし"やく (psychotropic drug). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ychotropicpsay psicotrópico, que afecta o estado mental (mood-altering). (various references) психотропный (psychoactive). (various references) psicotrópico. (various references) psykofarmaka (mood-altering drug, psychotropic drug). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Greek | 700 BCE-300 CE | psykhe-. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "psychotropic": psychotropics. (additional references) | |
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"Psychotropic" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: psychetropic, psychoatropic, psychothropic, psychotopic, psychotronic, psychotrope, psychotrophic, psychotropics, psychtropic, psycotropic, pyschotropic. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-c-h-i-o-o-p-p-r-s-t-y" | |
-1 letter: sporophytic. | |
-3 letters: psychotic, troopship. | |
-4 letters: coscript, isotropy, oophytic, photopic, porosity, porticos, scotopic, scrootch, strophic. | |
-5 letters: chicory, christy, cohorts, copyist, cryptic, cryptos, history, isochor, isotopy, octrois, ostrich, photics, poorish, portico, psychic, ripstop, scrooch, sirocco, stroppy, toyshop, trophic, tropics. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-c-h-i-o-o-p-p-r-s-t-y" | |
+1 letter: psychotropics. | |
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