tricyclic antidepressant
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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
Types & categories
- antidepressant hypernym
- amitriptyline hyponym
- clomipramine hyponym
- desipramine hyponym
- doxepin hyponym
- imipramine hyponym
- nortriptyline hyponym
- protriptyline hyponym
- trimipramine hyponym
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| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
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| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | antidepressant |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | amitriptyline |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | clomipramine |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | desipramine |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | doxepin |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | imipramine |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | nortriptyline |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | protriptyline |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | trimipramine |