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Amitriptyline vs Butriptyline - What's the difference?

amitriptyline | butriptyline |

As nouns the difference between amitriptyline and butriptyline

is that amitriptyline is (pharmacology) an antidepressant drug sold under the name elavil; a tablet containing this drug while butriptyline is a tricyclic antidepressant drug, the isobutyl side chain homologue of amitriptyline.

amitriptyline

English

(wikipedia amitriptyline)

Alternative forms

*amitryptiline

Noun

  • (pharmacology) An antidepressant drug sold under the name Elavil; a tablet containing this drug.
  • *2000 , (JG Ballard), Super-Cannes , Fourth Estate 2011, p. 327:
  • *:‘They were in very low concentrations, only fifteen per cent of the total. The remaining eighty-five per cent was made up of a powerful tranquillizer, amitryptiline .’

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    butriptyline

    English

    (wikipedia butriptyline)

    Noun

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  • A tricyclic antidepressant drug, the isobutyl side chain homologue of amitriptyline.