vasoconstrictor

Other forms of vasoconstrictor

plural

vasoconstrictors·

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 vasoconstrictor

What does vasoconstrictor mean?

vasoconstrictor 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 vasoconstrictor?

vasoconstrictor has 5 syllables and divides as va-so-con-stric-tor under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for vasoconstrictor?

Close synonyms include vasoconstrictive, 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 vasoconstrictor a common word?

vasoconstrictor 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.