MEANING
1. Tending to relieve anxiety.
2. A medication or other agent used to reduce anxiety.
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- anxiolytic effect
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The treatment had an anxiolytic effect.
The clinician compared anxiolytic approaches.
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Primary category: fear. Forms: Normally non-gradable as a clinical classification; compare strength of effects where appropriate. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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