tricyclic antidepressant

Questions about tricyclic antidepressant

What does tricyclic antidepressant mean?

tricyclic antidepressant means "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".

What is another word for tricyclic antidepressant?

Close synonyms include tricyclic, tricyclic antidepressant drug. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is tricyclic antidepressant a common word?

tricyclic antidepressant is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.