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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A trademark for the drug fluoxetine hydrochloride.
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- proper noun trademark A trade name for the drug
fluoxetine .
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- noun a selective-serotonin reuptake inhibitor commonly prescribed as an antidepressant (trade names Prozac or Sarafem); it is thought to work by increasing the activity of serotonin in the brain
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Examples
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Kitty Prozac is on the horizon if you don't shape up.
ain't no rest for the wicked, until we close our eyes at last stillsostrange 2009
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Generic fluoxetine (Prozac is the more expensive brand).
Suffering from depressive symptoms? Today is National Depression Screening Day 2010
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Dude, Prozac is SO much easier than all this “Working on your beliefs” crap.
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I nodded, while thinking just how bad off I must be if I was jumped up to 40 milligrams when the max for Prozac is 60.
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A great added benefit of Prozac is that it has helped to de-stigmatise depression.
A Scientific and Technological Revolution in the Pharmaceutical Industry 1999
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It’s the thing that has you sitting on a stool in a store, listening to a coworker assist a customer, while you wonder if the Prozac is actually working, or if it’s the jacked up work schedule that appeared in your planner without due notice that’s making you feel more normal again.
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Prozac is the best prescription for the republican party – and I’d support federal subsidizing of that treatment!
Think Progress » White House Operative: Bush Went to New Orleans to Find “A Good News Story” 2005
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In the last decade, the Food and Drug Administration has approved two medications to treat PMDD: the antidepressant fluoxetine (commonly known as Prozac but repackaged as Sarafem) and a birth control pill called Yaz.
Is There a PMS Gene? 2010
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By the end of 1987, the FDA approved the compound, now known as Prozac, as an antidepressant.
MANUFACTURING DEPRESSION Gary Greenberg 2010
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You'll be hearing about a little pill called Prozac in the news soon.
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