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UK
/tɹaɪsˈaɪklɪk/
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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
How To Use tricyclic In A Sentence
- In addition to monocyclic shoots, there are also bicyclic ones, and on the branches in the canopy top there are even tricyclic vegetative shoots.
- As she remembers, the doctors relied heavily on sedating antipsychotics such as Thorazine, Stelazine, and Haldol and some early tricyclic antidepressants. Crazy Like Us
- Drug interactions have been shown to occur with alprazolam, warfarin, theophylline, propranolol, and tricyclic antidepressants.
- Muscle relaxants or tricyclic antidepressant medications also may be prescribed.
- Drug interactions with phenobarbital, phenytoin and carbamazepine may lower tricyclic antidepressant levels.
- Although safe in normal doses, an overdose of some tricyclic antidepressants can dangerously affect the heart rhythm.
- The potential for a fatal overdose is significantly lower with SSRIs than with tricyclic antidepressants.
- Tricyclic antidepressants may be categorized as secondary or tertiary amines.
- Licensed primarily as an antihypertensive, clonidine shares some pharmacological effects with bupropion and tricyclic antidepressants.
- Antispasmodic and tricyclic antidepressant drugs improve pain, whereas ispaghula improves pain and bowel habit.
