vasoconstrictive

1. 1.

   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

   Synonymsvasoconstrictorpressor

   Broaderagent

   Narroweradrenergicangiotensinlypressinnaphazolinevasopressorcoldnessnoradrenalineepinephrinevasopressinnicotine

Other forms of vasoconstrictive

plural

vasoconstrictives·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about vasoconstrictive

What does vasoconstrictive mean?

vasoconstrictive means "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".

How many syllables are in vasoconstrictive?

vasoconstrictive has 5 syllables: va-so-con-stric-tive. The stress falls on "con".

What is another word for vasoconstrictive?

Close synonyms include vasoconstrictor, pressor. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is vasoconstrictive a common word?

vasoconstrictive is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.