Tricyclic antidepressant/Definition

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A definition or brief description of Tricyclic antidepressant.

Adrenergic uptake inhibitors used in the treatment of depression and other diseases; suppress postsynaptic catechol-O-methyl transferase, causing increases in synaptic norepinephrine and serotonin