Thesaurus: vasomotor

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1. a. 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.
2. adj. relating to the nerves and muscles that cause the blood vessels to constrict or dilate
3. 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.
4. Causing movement in the walls of vessels; as, the vasomotormechanisms; the vasomotor nerves, a system of nerves distributed overthe muscular coats of the blood vessels. Vasomotor center, the chiefdominating or general center which supplies all the unstriped musclesof the arterial system with motor nerves, situated in a part of themedulla oblongata; a center of reflex action by the working of whichafferent impulses are changed into efferent, -- vasomotor impulsesleading either to dilation or constriction of the blood vessels.
5. a. relating to the nerves and muscles that cause the blood vessels to constrict or dilate