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Any agent that induces sleep. Although sedatives, narcotics, or anxiolytics in sufficient dosage may produce sleep as an incidental effect, the term hypnotic is appropriately reserved for drugs employed primarily to induce sleep. Source: Edgerton, Jane E. 1994. American Psychiatric Glossary, 7th Edition. Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Press
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