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Vasoactive Thesaurus

(physiology, medicine) 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).

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Related dictionary entries include vasofactive, vasodilative, vasopressive, vasodilatative, vasoconstrictory, vasoconstrictive.

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