SSRI

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English

Noun

SSRI (plural SSRIs)

  1. (medicine) Initialism of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor.
    • 2009, Mark Fisher, chapter 5, in Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?, Zero Books, →ISBN, page 36:
      Considering mental illness an individual chemico-biological problem has enormous benefits for capitalism. First, it reinforces Capital’s drive towards atomistic individualization (you are sick because of your brain chemistry). Second, it provides an enormously lucrative market in which multinational pharmaceutical companies can peddle their pharmaceuticals (we can cure you with our SSRIs).
  2. (medicine) Initialism of serotonin-specific reuptake inhibitor.

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SSRI

  1. Abbreviation of Sovet Sotsialistik Respublikalari Ittifoqi (“Soviet Union”).
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