pressor vs noradrenaline

noradrenaline vs pressor

pressor and noradrenaline both are nouns.

pressor is an adjective but noradrenaline is not an adjective.

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

As nouns, noradrenaline is a hyponym of pressor; that is, noradrenaline 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
noradrenaline: a catecholamine precursor of epinephrine that is secreted by the adrenal medulla and also released at synapses

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

pressor (noun)	noradrenaline (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 precursor of epinephrine that is secreted by the adrenal medulla and also released at synapses

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

Difference between pressor and noradrenaline

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