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- noun Plural form of
vasoconstrictor .
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Examples
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• Substances causing vasoconstriction are called vasoconstrictors or vasopressors.
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As the stinger enters the flesh, the integumentary sheath surrounding the spine is ruptured and the venom escapes into the victim's tissues. 5Stingray venom is one of the most powerful vasoconstrictors found among the natural toxins.
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Leptin is one of a half dozen or so chemical messengers produced by fat cells, including thrombotic (pro-clotting) agents, vasoconstrictors (which raise blood pressure) and both inflammatory and anti-inflammatory agents that have powerful effects throughout the body.
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Cigarettes are vasoconstrictors, which means they constrict the blood vessels.
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Leptin is one of a half-dozen or so chemical messengers produced by fat cells, including thrombotic (pro-clotting) agents, vasoconstrictors (which raise blood pressure) and both inflammatory and anti-inflammatory agents that have powerful effects throughout the body.
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Some doctors recommend that pregnant women avoid vasoconstrictors.
Sudafed PE: Pregnant Women Should Watch Out For Reformulated Medicines - The Consumerist 2007
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The pilomotor fibers to the hairs and the motor fibers to the sweat glands apparently have a distribution similar to that of the vasoconstrictors of the skin.
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With this in mind, it is clear that while alcohol paralyzes the vasoconstrictors, it at the same time weakens the nerves which initiate and maintain the activity of the heart; while, on the other hand, cold excites to activity those nerves which produce the opposite effect.
Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say Martha Meir Allen 1890
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Alcohol paralyzes the vasoconstrictors, and so dilates the small vessels and lessens the resistance of the heart action; but at the same time it lessens the activity of the nerve centres which control the heart, diminishes the power of the heart muscle, and lessens that rhythmical activity of the small vessels whereby the circulation is so efficiently aided at that portion of the blood circuit most remote from the heart.
Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say Martha Meir Allen 1890
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This loss of the action of the peripheral heart more than counterbalances the temporary relief secured by the paralysis of the vasoconstrictors.
Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say Martha Meir Allen 1890
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