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Webster 1913 Edition
Pressor
Press′or
,Adj.
(Physiol.)
Causing, or giving rise to, pressure or to an increase of pressure;
as,
; – opposed to 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 pressuredepressor
. Landois & Stirling.