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Vasopressor

Definition: Vasopressor

Vasopressor

Noun

1. Any agent that produces vasoconstriction and a rise in blood pressure (usually understood as increased arterial pressure).

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 



Specialty Definitions: Vasopressor

DomainDefinitions

Health

1. stimulating contraction of the muscular tissue of the capillaries and arteries. 2. an agent that stimulates contraction of the muscular tissue of the capillaries and arteries. (references)

Medicine

A drug that elevates blood pressure. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: Vasopressor

English words defined with "vasopressor": angiotensin II. (references)
Specialty definitions using "vasopressor": Vasotocin. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Vasopressor" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Dutch (vasopressor), Portuguese (vasopressor).

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Vasopressor

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

vasopressor

4
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Modern Translations: Vasopressor

Language Translations for "vasopressor"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

vasopressin (vasopressin), hypotensivum. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

vasopressorisch, vasopressor. (various references)

   

Finnish

  

vasopressori. (various references)

   

French

  

vaso-presseur (a et sm), vaso-presseur. (various references)

   

German

  

vasopressorisch (substance affecting blood flow), vasokonstriktorischer Stoff. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

αγγειοσυσπαστικός, αγγειοσυσπαστικό φάρμακο. (various references)

   

Italian

  

vasopressorio, vasocostrittore, che stimola la contrazione del tessuto muscolare. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

asopressorvay

   

Portuguese

  

vasopressor. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

vasopresor, fármaco vasopresor. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Vasopressor

Derivations

Words beginning with "vasopressor": vasopressors. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Vasopressor

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-o-o-p-r-r-s-s-s-v"

-2 letters: aspersors, passovers.

-3 letters: aspersor, overpass, passover, pressors, savorers, vaporers.

-4 letters: parsers, passers, pressor, prosers, prosses, provers, raspers, roosers, saroses, savorer, serosas, soapers, soarers, soroses, sparers, sparser, vaporer.

-5 letters: aspers, operas, pareos, parers, parser, parses, parvos, paseos, passer, passes, pavers, poorer, pooves, porose, posers, posses, prases, proser, proses, prosos, prover, proves, rapers, rasers, rasper, ravers, repass, repros, rooser, rooses, ropers, rovers, sapors, savers, savors, serosa, servos, soaper, soarer, soaves, sopors, sparer, spares, sparse, spears, spoors, spores, vapors, versos.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-o-o-p-r-r-s-s-s-v"
 

+1 letter: vasopressors.

 

+4 letters: overpersuasions.

 

+5 letters: conservatorships.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Vasopressor


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

56 61 73 6F 70 72 65 73 73 6F 72

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010110 01100001 01110011 01101111 01110000 01110010 01100101 01110011 01110011 01101111 01110010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#86 &#97 &#115 &#111 &#112 &#114 &#101 &#115 &#115 &#111 &#114

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0056 0061 0073 006F 0070 0072 0065 0073 0073 006F 0072

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5667858182847185858184

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Translations: Modern
5. Derivations
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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