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Antidepressant vs Amitriptyline - What's the difference?

antidepressant | amitriptyline |

As nouns the difference between antidepressant and amitriptyline

is that antidepressant is an agent that prevents or counteracts depression while amitriptyline is (pharmacology) an antidepressant drug sold under the name elavil; a tablet containing this drug.

As an adjective antidepressant

is preventing or counteracting depression.

antidepressant

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • An agent that prevents or counteracts depression.

    • See also

    * fluoxetine * Prozac

    Hyponyms

    * See also

    Antonyms

    *depressogenic

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Preventing or counteracting depression.

    • 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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