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What is "pressor" in English? Definition and Explanations

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What does pressor mean in English? Meaning of pressor definition and abbreviation with examples.

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What is "pressor" in English? Definition and Explanations

Meaning of "pressor": any agent that causes a narrowing of an opening of a blood vessel: cold or stress or nicotine or epinephrine or norepinephrine or angiotensin or vasopressin or certain drugs; maintains or increases blood pressure

Noun

  • Meaning: any agent that causes a narrowing of an opening of a blood vessel: cold or stress or nicotine or epinephrine or norepinephrine or angiotensin or vasopressin or certain drugs; maintains or increases blood pressure
  • Synonyms: pressor vasoconstrictive vasoconstrictor
  • Hyponyms: adh adrenalin adrenaline adrenergic adrenergic drug angiotensin angiotonin antidiuretic hormone cold coldness epinephrin epinephrine frigidity frigidness hypertensin low temperature lypressin naphazoline nicotine noradrenaline norepinephrine pitressin privine sudafed vasopressin vasopressor
  • Hypernyms: agent

    • Meaning of "pressor": increasing (or tending to increase) blood pressure

    Adjective

  • Meaning: increasing (or tending to increase) blood pressure
  • Example: pressor reflexes
  • Synonyms: pressor
  • Adjective: vasopressor

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