pressor vs adrenaline

adrenaline vs pressor

pressor and adrenaline both are nouns.

pressor is an adjective but adrenaline is not an adjective.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
pressor	Yes	Yes	No	No
adrenaline	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, adrenaline is a hyponym of pressor; that is, adrenaline is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than pressor:

pressor: any agent that causes a narrowing of an opening of a blood vessel: cold or stress or nicotine or epinephrine or norepinephrine or angiotensin or vasopressin or certain drugs; maintains or increases blood pressure
adrenaline: a catecholamine secreted by the adrenal medulla in response to stress (trade name Adrenalin); stimulates autonomic nerve action

Other hyponyms of pressor include adrenergic, adrenergic drug, angiotensin, angiotonin, Hypertensin, lypressin, naphazoline, Privine, Sudafed, vasopressor, cold, coldness, frigidity, frigidness, low temperature, noradrenaline, norepinephrine, Adrenalin, epinephrin, epinephrine, ADH, antidiuretic hormone, Pitressin, vasopressin, nicotine.

pressor (noun)	adrenaline (noun)
any agent that causes a narrowing of an opening of a blood vessel: cold or stress or nicotine or epinephrine or norepinephrine or angiotensin or vasopressin or certain drugs; maintains or increases blood pressure	a catecholamine secreted by the adrenal medulla in response to stress (trade name Adrenalin); stimulates autonomic nerve action

pressor (adjective)	adrenaline (adjective)
increasing (or tending to increase) blood pressure

Difference between pressor and adrenaline

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