Term: vasopressor: any agent that produces vasoconstriction and a rise in blood pressure (usually understood as increased arterial pressure)
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: em: a linear unit (1/6 inch) used in printing → 0
Candidate hypernym: hypercholesterolemia: the presence of an abnormal amount of cholesterol in the cells and plasma of the blood; associated with the risk of atherosclerosis → 0
Candidate hypernym: plantago: type genus of the family Plantaginaceae; large cosmopolitan genus of mostly small herbs → 0
Candidate hypernym: landler: music in triple time for dancing the landler → 0
Candidate hypernym: stoop: an inclination of the top half of the body forward and downward → 0
Candidate hypernym: leatherback turtle: wide-ranging marine turtle with flexible leathery carapace; largest living turtle → 0
Candidate hypernym: starveling: someone who is starving (or being starved) → 0
Candidate hypernym: knock-knee: an inward slant of the thigh → 0
Candidate hypernym: punctuation: the marks used to clarify meaning by indicating separation of words into sentences and clauses and phrases → 0
Candidate hypernym: intactness: the state of being unimpaired → 0