tricyclic antidepressant

Noun tricyclic antidepressant has 1 sense

• tricyclic antidepressant(n = noun.artifact) tricyclic, tricyclic antidepressant drug - 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; Array
has particulars: amitriptyline, amitriptyline hydrochloride, elavil, clomipramine, desipramine, adapin, doxepin, doxepin hydrochloride, sinequan, imavate, imipramine, impramine hydrochloride, tofranil, nortriptyline, pamelor, protriptyline, surmontil, trimipramine
is a kind of antidepressant, antidepressant drug