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SSRI

SSRI is the initialism of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor.

SSRI is the initialism of serotonin-specific reuptake inhibitor.

Meaning of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor

Noun

selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (plural selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, abbreviation SSRI)

  1. Any of a class of drugs, such as fluoxetine or sertraline, that inhibit the uptake of serotonin in the central nervous system and are often used to treat certain mental illnesses, such as depression.
    • The literature on the dug treatment of Separation Anxiety Disorder in children and adolescents contains several controlled trials of tricyclic antidepressants, a few open trials of a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor, and several studies of benzodiazepines including one controlled trial. Based...1999, Selby Jacobs, Traumatic Grief, Taylor & Francis (Brunner/Mazel), page 62

Meaning of serotonin-specific reuptake inhibitor

Noun

serotonin-specific reuptake inhibitor (plural serotonin-specific reuptake inhibitors)

  1. A selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor.

Forms of SSRI

pluralSSRIs

Words formed from SSRI

Questions about SSRI

What is SSRI the initialism of?
SSRI is the initialism of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor.

Words near SSRI in the dictionary

  1. SSRA
  2. SSRE
  3. SSREs
  4. SSRF
  5. SSRFs
  6. SSRI
  7. SSRIB
  8. SSRIs
  9. SSRN
  10. ssrna
  11. ssrnas

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Adapted from Wiktionary: SSRI (page history and authors); selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (page history and authors); serotonin-specific reuptake inhibitor (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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