pressor – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
pressor
adj.
causing a rise in blood pressure
Antihypotensive agent
An
antihypotensive agent, also known as a
vasopressor agent, is any medication that tends to raise
reduced blood pressure. Some antihypotensive drugs act as
vasoconstrictors to increase
total peripheral resistance, others sensitize adrenoreceptors to catecholamines -
glucocorticoids, and the third class increase cardiac output - dopamine, dobutamine.
pressor
Adjective
1. increasing (or tending to increase) blood pressure; "pressor reflexes"
(pertainym) blood pressure
(classification) physiology
Pressor
(a.)
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.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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