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Answer for the clue "Maintains or increases blood pressure ", 15 letters:
vasoconstrictor

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Word definitions for vasoconstrictor in dictionaries

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context medicine English) Any substance that causes vasoconstriction

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Vasoconstrictor \Vas`o*con*strict"or\, a. (Physiol.) Causing constriction of the blood vessels; as, the vasoconstrictor nerves, stimulation of which causes constriction of the blood vessels to which they go. These nerves are also called vasohypertonic .

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. 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 [syn: vasoconstrictive ]

Usage examples of vasoconstrictor.

Cocaine is a vasoconstrictor and bronchodilator - it reduces blood flow to vessels near the surface of the skin and opens up the breathing passages.

It was a simple thing, a coded beat of high-frequency pulses that would turn the bugs in Anne’s head into little factories, flooding her brain with vasoconstrictors, creating millions of tiny aneurisms.