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PROTRIPTYLINE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does protriptyline mean?
• PROTRIPTYLINE (noun)
The noun PROTRIPTYLINE has 1 sense:
1. tricyclic antidepressant used to treat clinical depression
Familiarity information: PROTRIPTYLINE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Tricyclic antidepressant used to treat clinical depression
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("protriptyline" is a kind of...):
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)
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