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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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