pressor vs naphazoline

naphazoline vs pressor

pressor and naphazoline both are nouns.

pressor is an adjective but naphazoline is not an adjective.

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

As nouns, naphazoline is a hyponym of pressor; that is, naphazoline 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
naphazoline: vasoconstrictor (trade names Privine and Sudafed) used in nasal sprays to treat symptoms of nasal congestion and in eyedrops to treat eye irritation

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

pressor (noun)	naphazoline (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	vasoconstrictor (trade names Privine and Sudafed) used in nasal sprays to treat symptoms of nasal congestion and in eyedrops to treat eye irritation

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

Difference between pressor and naphazoline

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