Antipsychotics are medicines that are mainly used to treat schizophrenia or mania caused by bipolar disorder. There are two main types of antipsychotics: atypical antipsychotics and older antipsychotics. Both types are thought to work as well as each other.hey can also be used to treat severe depression and severe anxiety. Antipsychotics are sometimes also called major tranquillisers. There are two main types of antipsychotics: 1  Newer or atypical antipsychotics.
Learner's definition of PUGNACIOUS. [more pugnacious; most pugnacious] formal. : showing a readiness or desire to fight or argue. There's one pugnacious member on the committee who won't agree to anything. [+] more examples [-] hide examples [+] Example sentences [-] Hide examples.
Tweet. : any of a large genus (Euphorbia) of herbs, shrubs, and trees of the spurge family that have a milky juice and flowers lacking a calyx and included in an involucre which surrounds a group of several staminate flowers and a central pistillate flower with 3-lobed pistils; broadly: spurge.ADVERTISEMENT.edical Definition of EUPHORBIA. 1. : a large genus of plants of the spurge family that have a milky juice and flowers included in an involucre which surrounds a group of several staminate flowers and a central pistillate flower and that include a number which have been used medicinally.