ANTIDEPRESSANT DRUG

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does antidepressant drug mean? 

• ANTIDEPRESSANT DRUG (noun)
  The noun ANTIDEPRESSANT DRUG has 1 sense:

1. any of a class of drugs used to treat depression; often have undesirable side effects

  Familiarity information: ANTIDEPRESSANT DRUG used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ANTIDEPRESSANT DRUG (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of a class of drugs used to treat depression; often have undesirable side effects

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

antidepressant; antidepressant drug

Hypernyms ("antidepressant drug" is a kind of...):

medicament; medication; medicinal drug; medicine ((medicine) something that treats or prevents or alleviates the symptoms of disease)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "antidepressant drug"):

MAOI; monoamine oxidase inhibitor (any of a group of antidepressant drugs that inhibit the action of monoamine oxidase in the brain and so allow monoamines to accumulate)

nefazodone; Serzone (an antidepressant drug (trade name Serzone))

nontricyclic; nontricyclic antidepressant; nontricyclic antidepressant drug; nontricyclic drug (a class of antidepressant drugs that are not tricyclic drugs and do not act by inhibiting MAO)

Edronax; reboxetine (an antidepressant drug that blocks the reuptake of norepinephrine)

selective-serotonin reuptake inhibitor; SSRI (an antidepressant drug that acts by blocking the reuptake of serotonin so that more serotonin is available to act on receptors in the brain)

tricyclic; tricyclic antidepressant; tricyclic antidepressant drug (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)

maleate (a salt or ester of maleic acid; used as a nontricyclic antidepressant drug for psychomotor activation)

 Context examples 

This finding, the authors note, is consistent with a previous medication study showing that sertraline, a well-known antipanic and antidepressant drug, lowered orexin concentrations in cerebrospinal fluid.

(The Mechanism of Panic Attacks, NIH, US)