1.
[syn: vasoconstrictor, vasoconstrictive, pressor]
ADJECTIVE (1)
1. increasing (or tending to increase) blood pressure;
- Example: "pressor reflexes"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Pressor \Press"or\, a. (Physiol.)
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.
--Landois & Stirling.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
pressor
adj 1: increasing (or tending to increase) blood pressure;
"pressor reflexes"
n 1: 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:
vasoconstrictor, vasoconstrictive, pressor]