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pressor (medicine)


pressor
<physiology> Causing, or giving rise to, pressure or to an increase of pressure; as, pressor nerve fibres, stimulation of which excites the vasomotor center, thus causing a stronger contraction of the arteries and consequently an increase of the arterial blood pressure.

Compare: depressor.


metatroph (medicine)


metatroph


An organism that requires complex organic sources of carbon and nitrogen for growth.