atypicals

Not the norm

Atypicals is shorthand for atypical antipsychotics, a class of psychiatric medications used to treat schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and other conditions.

They're called atypical to distinguish them from older "typical" antipsychotics, having different side effect profiles: The doctor switched him from a typical to one of the atypicals.

clinical

presentations

Formal informative addresses

findings · features · patterns · variants · diagnoses · infections · pathology · unusual · rare · nonstandard

nonconforming

outliers

Extreme data points

irregulars · misfits · unconventionals · oddballs · eccentrics · aberrations · quirky · unusual · different · unique

psychiatric

antipsychotics

Drugs treating severe mental disorders

bipolar · medication · serotonin · dopamine · receptors · psychosis · prescriptions · side-effects · metabolic · treatment

Opposites
typicality/conformity

atypicalsstandards

Accepted levels of quality

normals · regulars · conventionals · classics · traditionals

pharmacological class

atypicalshaloperidol

Dopamine-blocking psychiatric medication

chlorpromazine

Phrases
Family

atypical, atypically, atypicality, atypicalities

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