Associations to the word «Tricyclic»

Wiktionary

TRICYCLIC, adjective. (chemistry) Having three rings of atoms in the molecule.
TRICYCLIC, noun. (chemistry) Any tricyclic compound.

Dictionary definition

TRICYCLIC, noun. 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.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope