pressoradj.n.

1890 J. S. Billings National Med. Dict. II. 386/2 Pressor nerves, nerves whose stimulation increases activity of vaso-motor centres.

1892 Philos. Trans. 1891 (Royal Soc.) B. 182 214 In the Monkey this phenomenon of a primary rise instead of the usual fall..would appear to be due to some pressor influence.

1904 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 10 Sept. 603 The extract..seems to contain both a pressor and a depressor substance.

1936 Amer. Heart Jrnl. 11 1 (title) The cold pressor test for measuring the reactibility of the blood pressure.

1967 Brain 90 516 It has been argued that the effect is pressor rather than neurogenic.

1987 A. M. Colman Facts, Fallacies & Frauds in Psychol. v. 120 One typical subject was exposed to cold pressor pain first in the normal non-hypnotized state, and she found the experience painful.

1990 Q. Jrnl. Med. 77 1201 Cigarette smoking has a substantial and prolonged pressor effect when combined with caffeine ingestion.

1953 Amer. Jrnl. Med. 14 757/1 Our results suggest that angiotonin and other pressors used are not the substances which cause systemic hypertension..in essential hypertension.

1966 Lancet 4 June 1243/1 Her blood-pressure became unobtainable and required intravenous pressors to maintain a systolic level of 90 mm. Hg.

2006 Amer. Jrnl. Hypertension 19 323/1 Although a sympathetic reflex has been suggested, it is unclear how water acts as a pressor.