| 单词 | vasopressin |
| 释义 | vasopressin (once / 738707 pages) n WORD FAMILY vasopressin USAGE EXAMPLESFor many years, University of Utah Health Care kept the blood-pressure medication vasopressin on hospital crash carts for use in emergencies. Wall Street Journal(Dec 18, 2016) If a pulse isn't detected after five minutes, the guidelines specify that the drugs epinephrine or vasopressin be administered for help with blood pressure. US News(Feb 24, 2016) But since the 1990s, vasopressin has been a hot topic in a very different field: social behavior. Scientific American(Sep 11, 2015) n hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus; affects blood pressure by stimulating capillary muscles and reduces urine flow by affecting reabsorption of water by kidney tubules Syn|Hyper ADH, Pitressin, antidiuretic hormone pressor, vasoconstrictive, vasoconstrictor 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 endocrine, hormone, internal secretionthe secretion of an endocrine gland that is transmitted by the blood to the tissue on which it has a specific effect |
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