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a tranquilizer (trade name Mellaril) used to treat schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders

a tranquilizer (trade name Mellaril) used to treat schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders

A phenothiazine antipsychotic used in the management of psychoses, including schizophrenia, and in the control of severely disturbed or agitated behavior. It has little antiemetic activity. Thioridazine has a higher incidence of antimuscarinic effects, but a lower incidence of extrapyramidal symptoms, than CHLORPROMAZINE. (From Martindale, The Extra Pharmacopoeia, 30th ed, p618)