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vasomotor


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Vasomotor  \Vas`o*mo"tor\,  a.  [L.  vas  a  vessel  +  motor  that  which 
  moves  fr  movere  to  move.]  (Physiol.) 
  Causing  movement  in  the  walls  of  vessels;  as  the  vasomotor 
  mechanisms;  the  vasomotor  nerves,  a  system  of  nerves 
  distributed  over  the  muscular  coats  of  the  blood  vessels. 
 
  {Vasomotor  center},  the  chief  dominating  or  general  center 
  which  supplies  all  the  unstriped  muscles  of  the  arterial 
  system  with  motor  nerves,  situated  in  a  part  of  the 
  medulla  oblongata;  a  center  of  reflex  action  by  the 
  working  of  which  afferent  impulses  are  changed  into 
  efferent,  --  vasomotor  impulses  leading  either  to  dilation 
  or  constriction  of  the  blood  vessels. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  vasomotor 
  adj  :  relating  to  the  nerves  and  muscles  that  cause  the  blood 
  vessels  to  constrict  or  dilate 




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