Definition of Pressor
Adjective: pressor pre-su(r)
- (physiology) increasing (or tending to increase) blood pressure
"pressor reflexes"
- 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
- vasoconstrictor, vasoconstrictive
Anagrams containing the word pressor