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vasopressor

vasopressor adjective: of or relating to the constriction of blood vessels, which usually causes a rise in blood pressure.

Adjective

vasopressor (not comparable)

  1. Of or relating to the constriction of blood vessels, which usually causes a rise in blood pressure.

Noun

vasopressor (plural vasopressors)

  1. An agent that causes such constriction; especially, a medication that tends to increase blood pressure.

vasopressor meaning in Tamil

vasopressor in Tamil

குழாய் இறுக்கி, நாள இறுக்கி

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Forms of vasopressor

pluralvasopressors

Origin of vasopressor

To international scientific vocabulary from New Latin as a classical compound: vaso- + press + -or; the word is attested in its adjectival sense in a 1913 article of the Journal of the American Medical Association (1913;60[1]:47-48). The cognate word vasopressin seems to have arisen circa 1927; it is clearly inspired by its earlier cognate (surface analysis, vaso- + press + -in), and there are indications that it was coined in a certain pharmaceutical company's research laboratory, possibly with the plan to use it as the trade name for a preparation, but it became the common noun for the endogenous hormone (that is, antidiuretic hormone) immediately in the medical literature, and that company then used another name as its trade name. Compare also the morphologic parallels of angiotensin.

Questions about vasopressor

What does vasopressor mean?
Vasopressor means of or relating to the constriction of blood vessels, which usually causes a rise in blood pressure.
What is vasopressor in Tamil?
Vasopressor in Tamil is குழாய் இறுக்கி, நாள இறுக்கி. See Vasopressor meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is vasopressor?
Vasopressor can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near vasopressor in the dictionary

  1. vasopressinase
  2. vasopressinergic
  3. vasopressins
  4. vasopression
  5. vasopressive
  6. vasopressor
  7. vasopressors
  8. vasoproliferation
  9. vasoproliferations
  10. vasoproliferative
  11. vasoprotecting

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