vasopressor
adjective, noun
vasopressor is an adjective meaning “Of or relating to the constriction of blood vessels, which usually causes a rise in blood pressure” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled V-A-S-O-P-R-E-S-S-O-R, and it appears about once in every 98 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does vasopressor mean?
adjective
- 1
Of or relating to the constriction of blood vessels, which usually causes a rise in blood pressure.
noun
- 1
An agent that causes such constriction; especially, a medication that tends to increase blood pressure.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of vasopressor
- vasopressors plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is vasopressor?
Vasopressor appears about once in every 98 million words in written English, the 317,168th 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).
Where does vasopressor come from?
To 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).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).