Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- A trademark used for the drug amitriptyline.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- n. a tricyclic antidepressant drug (trade name Elavil) with serious side effects; interacts with many other medications
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Examples
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We did not have some of the antidepressants we have now, but she responded very well to a medication called Elavil, which is still in use today, and was discharged from hospital within a few weeks.
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Another class of drugs prescribed to improve sleep is tricyclic antidepressants such as amitriptyline (brand name Elavil) and doxipin (Sinequan).
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Nardil and Parnate; and TCA's (tricyclic antidepressants) such as Elavil and Norpramin.
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A class of older antidepressants called tricyclics, such as amitriptyline (Elavil) or imipramine (Tofranil), are effective at staving off chronic tension-type headaches in many people who have not found relief with over-the-counter medications.
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This was street code for an illegal transaction: fifty-six units of 50 mg tablets of Elavil, twenty-eight units of 200 mg tablets of Tuinol, and fifty-six units of 10 mg tablets of Valium.
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The package insert for Elavil was slipped into the dust jacket of Symposium in Blues, right next to the record sleeve, and when a doctor opened the album, he was greeted with the Elavil logo, along with a list of the symptoms of depression.
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One of his first moves was to recruit Frank Ayd, the Baltimore psychiatrist who spearheaded the clinical trials for Elavil.
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But even before Robert Spitzer and his committee reinvented depression, Elavil and Tofranil and all the rest caught a huge break.
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The answer was Valium and later Elavil—neither of which, it turned out, mix well with alcohol.
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In the middle of the twentieth century, psychiatrists thought they had found it with amphetamines, and later they thought they had found it with tricyclic antidepressants like Tofranil and Elavil.
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