tricyclic antidepressant drug

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   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

   Synonymstricyclictricyclic antidepressant

   Broaderantidepressant

   Narroweramitriptylineclomipraminedesipraminedoxepinimipraminenortriptylineprotriptylinetrimipramine

Questions about tricyclic antidepressant drug

What does tricyclic antidepressant drug mean?

tricyclic antidepressant drug 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 drug?

Close synonyms include tricyclic, tricyclic antidepressant. 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 drug a common word?

tricyclic antidepressant drug 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.