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Definition of Tricyclic antidepressant

1. 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.

Medical Definition of Tricyclic antidepressant

1. A group of antidepressant medications that share chemical characteristics, side effects and toxicity. Examples include: amitriptyline, amoxapine, clomipramine, desipramine, imipramine, nortriptyline, trimipramine and protriptyline. (19 Jan 1998)

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Literary usage of Tricyclic antidepressant

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1. Code of Federal Regulations, Title 21, Food and Drugs, Pt. 800-1299, Revised by Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Staff (2005)
"A tricyclic antidepressant drugs test system is a device intended to measure any of the tricyclic antidepressant drugs in serum. ..."

2. Depression in Primary Care: Vol. 2. Treatment of Major Depression: Clinical by DIANE Publishing Company (1993)
"Amsterdam J, Brunswick DJ, Mendels J. The clinical application of tricyclic antidepressant pharmacokinetics and plasma levels. ..."

3. Statistical Assessment Of National Significant Industrial User Noncompliance (1993)
"Amsterdam J, Brunswick DJ, Mendels J. The clinical application of tricyclic antidepressant pharmacokinetics and plasma levels. ..."

4. Treatment of Depression edited by Cynthia D. Mulrow (2000)
"Hypericum has fewer adverse effects than older first generation tricyclic antidepressant agents. Context Extracts of the plant Hypericum perforatum L, ..."

5. Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Information for Physicians edited by Barry Leonard (1998)
"Desipramine is a less sedating tricyclic antidepressant When sedation is not desirable, SSRIs, such as fluoxetine, ..."

6. Cocaine Use in America: Epidemmiologic and Clinical Perspectives edited by Nicholas J. Kozel, Edgar H. Adams (1996)
"1983; Tennant and Rawson 1983) indicate that tyrosine (an amino acid), desipramine (a tricyclic antidepressant) ..."

7. Drug Labeling In Developing Countries by DIANE Publishing Company (2004)
"... and tricyclic antidepressant that did not include detailed information on the symptoms and management of overdose. I Analysis by Company and Country ..."

8. Value of Psychiatric Treatment: Its Efficacy in Severe Mental Disorders edited by Samuel J. Keith (1996)
"The effect of lithium in augmenting tricyclic antidepressant response was equivocal in three studies involving 19 elderly patients, some patients improved ..."

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