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Definition: Amitriptyline |
AmitriptylineNoun1. A tricyclic antidepressant drug (trade name Elavil) with serious side effects; interacts with many other medications. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Health | Tricyclic antidepressant with anticholinergic and sedative properties. It appears to prevent the re-uptake of norepinephrine and serotonin at nerve terminals, thus potentiating the action of these neurotransmitters. Amitriptyline also appears to antaganize cholinergic and alpha-1 adrenergic responses to bioactive amines. (references) |
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Synonym: AmitriptylineSynonym: amitriptyline hydrochloride (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Amitriptyline |
| English words defined with "amitriptyline": amitriptyline hydrochloride. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "amitriptyline": Opipramol. (references) |
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Health | Amitriptyline is used to treat laughing/weeping syndrome. (references) | |
Antidepressant medications such as amitriptyline (sometimes used with fluphenazine) or nerve medications such as carbamazepine or phenytoin sodium may be helpful. (references) | ||
Many controlled studies have shown that preventive treatment with lithium or antidepressants (imipramine and amitriptyline) can substantially prevent recurrent episodes of unipolar depression. (references) | ||
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Expression using "amitriptyline": Amitriptyline Hydrochloride. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
amitriptyline | 881 | amitriptyline medication | 3 |
amitriptyline hcl | 35 | amitriptyline gain weight | 3 |
amitriptyline side effects | 25 | amitriptyline elavil | 3 |
apo amitriptyline | 22 | amitriptyline chronic pain | 3 |
amitriptyline hydrochloride | 11 | amitriptyline headache | 2 |
amitriptyline drug | 6 | amitriptyline use | 2 |
amitriptyline overdose | 6 | amitriptyline treatment | 2 |
amitriptyline for dog | 4 | amitriptyline migraine | 2 |
amitriptyline information | 4 | amitriptyline pregnancy | 2 |
amitriptyline for cat | 4 | amitriptyline fibromyalgia | 2 |
amitriptyline effects | 4 | migraines amitriptyline | 2 |
amitriptyline pain | 3 | amitriptyline hcl qualitest | 2 |
amitriptyline 25mg | 2 | ||
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| Language | Translations for "amitriptyline"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | amitriptylin. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | amitriptylinum, amitriptyline. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | amitriptyliini. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | amitryptile, amitriptyline, Laroxyl, Elavil. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Amitriptylinum, Amitriptylin. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | amitriptylinum, amitriptilina. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | amitriptylineay amitriptilina. (various references) amitriptilina. (various references) amitriptylin. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "amitriptyline": amitriptylines. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-i-i-i-l-m-n-p-r-t-t-y" | |
-2 letters: impatiently. | |
-3 letters: intimately, tryptamine. | |
-4 letters: altimetry, impatient, implanter, interplay, intimater, linearity, literatim, maternity, mentality, painterly, paternity, patiently, primality, reimplant, reptilian. | |
-5 letters: antitype, imparity, imperial, inertial, initiate, interlap, interlay, intermit, intimate, latinity, limitary, literati, martinet, militant, military, militate, paintier, palmitin, patently, penality, playtime, prelimit, prettily, remittal, reptilia, terminal, tinplate, tramline, trapline, triplane, triplite, triptane, tyramine. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-i-i-i-l-m-n-p-r-t-t-y" | |
+1 letter: amitriptylines. | |
+2 letters: impenetrability. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 6D 69 74 72 69 70 74 79 6C 69 6E 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- -- .. - .-. .. .--. - -.--. .-.. .. -. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01101101 01101001 01110100 01110010 01101001 01110000 01110100 01111001 01101100 01101001 01101110 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A m i t r i p t y l i n e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 006D 0069 0074 0072 0069 0070 0074 0079 006C 0069 006E 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)35797586847582869178758071 |
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