pressor vs norepinephrine

norepinephrine vs pressor

pressor and norepinephrine both are nouns.

pressor is an adjective but norepinephrine is not an adjective.

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

As nouns, norepinephrine is a hyponym of pressor; that is, norepinephrine 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
norepinephrine: 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, noradrenaline, Adrenalin, adrenaline, epinephrin, epinephrine, ADH, antidiuretic hormone, Pitressin, vasopressin, nicotine.

pressor (noun)	norepinephrine (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)	norepinephrine (adjective)
increasing (or tending to increase) blood pressure

Difference between pressor and norepinephrine

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