antimanic

antimanic
/an'tee man"ik, -may"nik, an'tuy-/, adj.
1. preventing, curing, or palliating the symptoms of mania.
n.
2. Pharm. a pharmacological substance used to treat mania, as lithium.
[ANTI- + MANIC]

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