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Psychotropic

Definition: Psychotropic

Psychotropic

Adjective

1. Affecting the mind or mood or other mental processes; "psychoactive drugs".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Specialty Definition: Psychotropic

DomainDefinition

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: Psychotropic

Synonym: psychoactive (adj). (additional references)
Antonym: nonpsychoactive (adj). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Psychotropic

Specialty definitions using "psychotropic": Dizocilpine MaleateLofepraminePsychotropic Drugs. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Psychotropic

DomainTitle

Books

  • Clinical Handbook of Psychotropic Drugs (reference)

  • Handbook of Psychotropic Herbs: A Scientific Analysis of Herbal Remedies for Psychiatric Conditions (reference)

  • Professional's Handbook of Psychotropic Drugs (reference)

  • Psychotropic Drug Information Handbook 2002 (reference)

  • Psychotropic Drugs (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

  

Music

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Non-Fiction Usage: Psychotropic

SubjectTopicQuote

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.

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Usage Frequency: Psychotropic

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)94.87%3756,631
Noun (proper)5.13%2245,945
                    Total100.00%39N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Psychotropic

Expressions using "psychotropic": psychotropic agent psychotropic drug Psychotropic Drugs. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Psychotropic

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
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
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Modern Translation: Psychotropic

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

   

Portuguese

  

psicotrópico, que afecta o estado mental (mood-altering). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

психотропный (psychoactive). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

psicotrópico. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

psykofarmaka (mood-altering drug, psychotropic drug). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Psychotropic

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Greek700 BCE-300 CE

psykhe-. (various references)

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Derivations & Misspellings: Psychotropic

Derivations

Words beginning with "psychotropic": psychotropics. (additional references)


Misspellings

"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).

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Anagrams: Psychotropic

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Quotations: Non-fiction
6. Usage Frequency
7. Expressions
8. Expressions: Internet
9. Translations: Modern
10. Translations: Ancient
11. Derivations
12. Anagrams
13. Bibliography


  

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