pressor

  • (a) increasing (or tending to increase) blood pressure
    • pressor reflexes

Nouns

  • (n) 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 vasoconstrictive, vasoconstrictor,

Synonyms

vasoconstrictive vasoconstrictor

Words of close approximity

pressed