Vasomotor : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Vasomotor	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for Vasomotor
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
vasomotor adj relating to the nerves and muscles that cause the blood vessels to constrict or dilate
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Vasomotor \Vas`omo"tor\, a. [L. vas a vessel + motor that which moves fr. movere to move.] (Physiol.) Causing movement in the walls of vessels; as, the vasomotor* mechanisms; the vasomotor nerves, a system of nerves distributed over the muscular coats of the blood vessels. {Vasomotor center}, the chief dominating or general center which supplies all the unstriped muscles of the arterial system with motor nerves, situated in a part of the medulla oblongata; a center of reflex action by the working of which afferent impulses are changed into efferent, -- vasomotor impulses leading either to dilation or constriction of the blood vessels.