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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun has 1 sense
- pressor(n = noun.artifact) vasoconstrictive, vasoconstrictor - any agent that causes a narrowing of an opening of a blood vessel: cold or stress or nicotine or epinephrine or norepinephrine or angiotensin or vasopressin or certain drugs; maintains or increases blood pressure;
Adjective has 1 sense
CIDE DICTIONARY
, 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 . Landois & Stirling. [1913 Webster]