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doc Definition of pressor
    English to English
    adjective
  • increasing (or tending to increase) blood pressure
  • Pressor reflexes.
    source: WordNet 3.0
  • Causing, or giving rise to, pressure or to an increase of pressure; as, pressor nerve fibers, stimulation of which excites the vasomotor center, thus causing a stronger contraction of the arteries and consequently an increase of the arterial blood pressure; -- opposed to depressor.
  • source: Webster 1913
    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
  • source: WordNet 3.0
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