vasoactive
adjective
vasoactive is an adjective meaning “Active on vessel walls, that is, causing either constriction or dilation of a blood vessel, thus affecting hemodynamics (blood flow). Vasoactive…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled V-A-S-O-A-C-T-I-V-E, and it appears about once in every 26 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does vasoactive mean?
adjective
- 1
Active on vessel walls, that is, causing either constriction or dilation of a blood vessel, thus affecting hemodynamics (blood flow). Vasoactive substances may be endogenous (for example, endogenous angiotensin, vasopressin, or epinephrine) or exogenous (for example, pharmaceutical vasopressin or epinephrine).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of vasoactive
- more vasoactive comparative
- most vasoactive superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is vasoactive?
Vasoactive appears about once in every 26 million words in written English, the 154,067th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Vasoactive in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense that causes either constriction or dilation of a blood vessel:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | vasoactif |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does vasoactive come from?
From vaso- + active.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).