vaso-motor

It is as if poison had been produced, which reacts upon the nervous system, especially on the vaso-motor nerves or the trophic nerves of the skin.

Charles Richet - Nobel Lecture 1967

We have a similar mechanism in the vaso-motor system, which has been known for nearly three quarters of a century as a result of virtually innumerable investigations, since the discovery by Henle of the smooth muscle of vessels, the discovery of vaso-constrictor and vaso-dilator nerves by Claude Bernard, and the explanation provided by Ludwig of the influence these structures have on the blood flow.

Physiology or Medicine 1920 - Presentation Speech 1967

Thus an increase in arterial pressure in the internal carotid stimulates a number of nerve terminals in the walls of the sinus and produces a reflex which is transmitted by the ninth pair of cranial nerves, the glossopharyngeal nerves, and reaches the territories of the vagus and vaso-motor nerves.

Physiology or Medicine 1938 - Presentation Speech 1965

Again, the normal influence of the vaso-motor center may be suspended for a time by what is known as the inhibitory or restraining effect.

A Practical Physiology Albert F. Blaisdell

Then the result of the mental emotion is to cause the vaso-motor nerves to exercise a more powerful control over the capillaries, thereby closing them, and thus shutting off the flow of blood.

A Practical Physiology Albert F. Blaisdell

Now the vaso-motor center may be excited to increased activity by influences reaching it from various parts of the body, or even from the brain itself.

A Practical Physiology Albert F. Blaisdell

The tone and caliber of the blood-vessels are controlled by certain vaso-motor nerves, which are distributed among the muscular fibers of the walls.

A Practical Physiology Albert F. Blaisdell

In brief, all over the body, the nervous system, by its vaso-motor centers, is always supervising and regulating the distribution of blood in the body, sending now more and now less to this or that part.

A Practical Physiology Albert F. Blaisdell

First, the skin regulates the loss of heat by means of the vaso-motor mechanism.

A Practical Physiology Albert F. Blaisdell

First, we note the failure of the vaso-motor nerves to maintain the proper tone of the blood-vessels, as in the turgid face and the congested cornea of the eye.

A Practical Physiology Albert F. Blaisdell