About The Word Vasomotor
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Vasomotor
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What's The Definition Of Vasomotor?
[adj] relating to the nerves and muscles that cause the blood vessels to constrict or dilate
Synonyms | Synonyms for Vasomotor: Related Terms | Find terms related to Vasomotor: See Also | Vasomotor In Webster's Dictionary \Vas`o*mo"tor\, a. [L. vas a vessel + motor that which
moves fr. movere to move.] (Physiol.)
Causing movement in the walls of vessels; as, the vasomotor
mechanisms; the vasomotor nerves, a system of nerves
distributed over the muscular coats of the blood vessels.
{Vasomotor center}, the chief dominating or general center
which supplies all the unstriped muscles of the arterial
system with motor nerves, situated in a part of the
medulla oblongata; a center of reflex action by the
working of which afferent impulses are changed into
efferent, -- vasomotor impulses leading either to dilation
or constriction of the blood vessels.
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