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pressor |
1 definition found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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.
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