pressor vs vasopressor

vasopressor vs pressor

pressor and vasopressor both are nouns.

pressor is an adjective but vasopressor is not an adjective.

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

As nouns, vasopressor is a hyponym of pressor; that is, vasopressor 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
vasopressor: any agent that produces vasoconstriction and a rise in blood pressure (usually understood as increased arterial pressure)

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

pressor (noun)	vasopressor (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	any agent that produces vasoconstriction and a rise in blood pressure (usually understood as increased arterial pressure)

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

Difference between pressor and vasopressor

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