noun
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
• Syn: ↑vasoconstrictive, ↑pressor
• Hypernyms: ↑agent
• Hyponyms:
↑adrenergic, ↑adrenergic drug, ↑angiotensin, ↑angiotonin, ↑Hypertensin, ↑lypressin, ↑naphazoline, ↑Privine, ↑Sudafed, ↑vasopressor, ↑coldness, ↑cold, ↑low temperature, ↑frigidity, ↑frigidness, ↑noradrenaline, ↑norepinephrine, ↑epinephrine, ↑epinephrin, ↑adrenaline, ↑Adrenalin, ↑vasopressin, ↑antidiuretic hormone, ↑ADH, ↑Pitressin, ↑nicotine
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\\“+\ nounEtymology: International Scientific Vocabulary vas- + constrictor
: an agent (as a sympathetic nerve fiber or a drug) that induces or initiates vasoconstriction
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/vas'oh keuhn strik"teuhr, vay'zoh-/, n. Physiol., Pharm.
a nerve or drug that causes vasoconstriction.
[1875-80; VASO- + CONSTRICTOR]
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vasoconstricˈtor noun
A nerve or drug that causes vasoconstriction
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Main Entry: ↑vaso-
Useful english dictionary. 2012.