Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A tricyclic antidepressant drug, C20H23N.
Wiktionary
- n. uncountable An antidepressant drug sold under the name Elavil.
- n. countable A tablet containing this drug.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a tricyclic antidepressant drug (trade name Elavil) with serious side effects; interacts with many other medications
Etymologies
- Perhaps ami(no)- + alteration of trypt(ophan) + -yl + -ine2. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“For those with insomnia, I often prescribe 12.5 to 25 mg daily of a drug called amitriptyline.”
“If pain persists for more than a month, and has not responded to other painkillers, a medicine called amitriptyline might be prescribed.”
“Quite a few commonly used preventive medications, such as amitriptyline or divalproex (Depakote), might have unwelcome side effects, including weight gain and/or sedation.”
“Quite a few commonly used preventive medications, such as amitriptyline or divalproex Depakote, might have unwelcome side effects, including weight gain and/or sedation.”
“Tricyclic antidepressants such as amitriptyline are usually prescribed instead," Diener said.”
“I had to change my story's year for school because I could find Nothing about the early 1900s in the late 60's, people who were bipolar were called maniac depressives. they were given Lithium to control the manic phase and tricyclic antidepressants such as amitriptyline”
“Tricyclic and tetracyclic antidepressants, such as amitriptyline, clomipramine (Anafranil), amoxapine and desipramine (Norpramin).”
“(TAO), and sparfloxacin (Zagam); antidepressants such as amitriptyline (Elavil), maprotiline”
“- quinidine (Quinaglute, Quinidex, Cardioquin, Quinora); or an antidepressant such as amitriptyline (Elavil), citalopram (Celexa), clomipramine”
“E-Mycin, others), troleandomycin (TAO), and sparfloxacin (Zagam); antidepressants such as amitriptyline”
Lists
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SCIE - EU nomenclature
All the scientific words found in the official EU nomenclature. For the screening I used Vocabgrabber of the Visual Thesaurus.
abdominal, absorbent, accelerator, accumulator, acebutolol, acetamide, acetanilide, acetate, acetic acid, acetone, acetous, acetyl and 1171 more...
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IMCO - EU nomenclature
includes words of the "Prodcom list"
abaca, abdominal, abrasive, absorbent, absorber, accelerator, accessory, account book, accumulator, acebutolol, acetaldehyde, acetamide and 4515 more...
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ipt
script, conscript, description, inscription, prescription, proscription, conniption, receipt, tip toe, tip top, strip tease, Rip Torn and 27 more...
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