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Definition: Tricyclic |
TricyclicNoun1. 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. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Health | Containing three fused rings or closed chains in the molecular structure. (references) |
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Synonyms: TricyclicSynonyms: tricyclic antidepressant (n), tricyclic antidepressant drug (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Tricyclic |
| English words defined with "tricyclic": Adapin, amitriptyline, amitriptyline hydrochloride ♦ clomipramine ♦ despiramine, doxepin, doxepin hydrochloride ♦ Elavil ♦ Imavate, imipramine, impramine hydrochloride ♦ nontricyclic, nontricyclic antidepressant, nontricyclic antidepressant drug, nontricyclic drug, nortriptyline, noxiptiline ♦ Pamelor, protriptyline ♦ Sinequan, Surmontil ♦ Tofranil, trimipramine. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "tricyclic": Acenaphthenes, Adrenergic Uptake Inhibitors, Antidepressive Agents ♦ Citalopram ♦ Desipramine, Dibenzocycloheptenes, Dothiepin ♦ Lofepramine ♦ Maprotiline, Mazindol ♦ Opipramol ♦ Plicamycin ♦ Quipazine. (references) |
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Health | In the case of depression the tricyclic antidepressants are frequently useful in the absence of contraindications. (references) | |
Only a few tricyclic antidepressants have been used in controlled studies of the preventive effect of these agents. (references) | ||
In treating unipolar disorders, both lithium and tricyclic antidepressants have been shown to be effective for prevention. (references) | ||
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| "Tricyclic" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Tricyclic" is used about 35 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 35 | 58,339 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "tricyclic": tricyclic antidepressant ♦ tricyclic antidepressant drug ♦ Tricyclic Antidepressants ♦ Tricyclic Antidepressants (TCAs). 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 |
tricyclic antidepressants | 76 |
tricyclic antidepressant | 13 |
tricyclic | 5 |
anti depressants tricyclic | 4 |
overdose tricyclic | 3 |
drug tricyclic | 3 |
antidepressant drug tricyclic | 2 |
antidepressant overdose tricyclic | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "tricyclic"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | tricyklisk, tricycklisk. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | tricyclisch. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | trisyklinen, kolmirenkainen. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | tricyclique. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | trizyklisch. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | τρικυκλικός. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | triciclico. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | icyclictray tricíclico. (various references) трехцикличный. (various references) tricíclico. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "tricyclic": tricyclics. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-c-c-i-i-l-r-t-y" | |
-3 letters: citric, clitic, critic, cyclic. | |
-4 letters: icily, ictic, licit, lyric, lytic. | |
-5 letters: city, clit, liri, tirl. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-c-c-i-i-l-r-t-y" | |
+1 letter: tricyclics. | |
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