Term: vasopressin: hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus; affects blood pressure by stimulating capillary muscles and reduces urine flow by affecting reabsorption of water by kidney tubules
Candidate hypernym: vasoconstrictor: 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 → 1
Candidate hypernym: arum: starch resembling sago that is obtained from cuckoopint root → 0
Candidate hypernym: oxyura: ruddy duck → 0
Candidate hypernym: sandboy: a young peddler of sand; used now only to express great happiness in `happy as a sandboy' → 0
Candidate hypernym: crimson: a deep and vivid red color → 0
Candidate hypernym: sparid: spiny-finned food fishes of warm waters having well-developed teeth → 0
Candidate hypernym: hit: (baseball) a successful stroke in an athletic contest (especially in baseball) → 0
Candidate hypernym: osteomalacia: abnormal softening of bones caused by deficiencies of phosphorus or calcium or vitamin D → 0
Candidate hypernym: smart bomb: a bomb that can be guided (by a laser beam or radio) to its target → 0
Candidate hypernym: niggard: a selfish person who is unwilling to give or spend → 0
Candidate hypernym: acquiescence: acceptance without protest → 0