what does vasoconstrictor mean?
VASOCONSTRICTOR as NOUN
- Meaning
- 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
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Hypernyms(s) vasoconstrictor is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
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