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  • adjective That mimics the symptoms of psychosis

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psycho- +‎ mimetic

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Examples

  • His friend Vic Lovell, a psych major, told him they were paying twenty dollars a session to volunteers experimenting with "psychomimetic" drugs.

    thinking of kesey Annie 2005

  • His friend Vic Lovell, a psych major, told him they were paying twenty dollars a session to volunteers experimenting with "psychomimetic" drugs.

    Archive 2005-11-01 Annie 2005

  • - high incidence of psychomimetic reactions (namely, hallucination, nightmares, altered short term memory, and cognition).

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows 2010

  • - high incidence of psychomimetic reactions (namely, hallucination, nightmares, altered short term memory, and cognition).

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows aljonaieh 2010

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