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Definisi 'pressor'
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English to English adjective
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increasing (or tending to increase) blood pressure |  | Example: pressor reflexes
source: wordnet30
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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. | | source: webster1913 noun
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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 | | source: wordnet30
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