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pressor vs adrenergic drug

adrenergic drug vs pressor

pressor and adrenergic drug both are nouns.

pressor is an adjective but adrenergic drug is not an adjective.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
pressor Yes Yes No No
adrenergic drug Yes No No No
As nouns, adrenergic drug is a hyponym of pressor; that is, adrenergic drug 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
  • adrenergic drug: drug that has the effects of epinephrine
pressor (noun) adrenergic drug (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 drug that has the effects of epinephrine
pressor (adjective) adrenergic drug (adjective)
increasing (or tending to increase) blood pressure
Difference between pressor and adrenergic drug

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