noun
an antidepressant drug that acts by blocking the reuptake of norepinephrine and serotonin and thus making more of those substances available to act on receptors in the brain
• Syn: ↑tricyclic, ↑tricyclic antidepressant drug
• Hypernyms: ↑antidepressant, ↑antidepressant drug
• Hyponyms:
↑amitriptyline, ↑amitriptyline hydrochloride, ↑Elavil, ↑clomipramine, ↑desipramine, ↑doxepin, ↑doxepin hydrochloride, ↑Adapin, ↑Sinequan, ↑imipramine, ↑impramine hydrochloride, ↑Imavate, ↑Tofranil, ↑nortriptyline, ↑Pamelor, ↑protriptyline, ↑trimipramine, ↑Surmontil
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noun also tricyclic (-s) : any of a group of antidepressant drugs (as imipramine and nortriptyline) that contain three fused benzene rings, that potentiate the action of catecholamines (as norepinephrine and serotonin) by inhibiting their uptake by nerve endings, and that do not inhibit the action of monoamine oxidase
Useful english dictionary. 2012.