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11 letters · 16 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun any agent that produces vasoconstriction and a rise in blood pressure (usually understood as increased arterial pressure)
originTo international scientific vocabulary from New Latin as a classical compound: vaso- + press + -or; the word is attested in its adjectival sense in a 1913 article of the Journal of the American Medical Association (1913;60[1]:47-48). The cognate word vasopressin seems to have arisen circa 1927; it is clearly inspired by its earlier cognate (surface analysis, vaso- + press + -in), and there are…
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