vasomotor

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: vas=o=mo=tor

CIDE DICTIONARY

vasomotor, a. [L. vas a vessel + motor that which moves fr. movere to move.].

 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.  [1913 Webster]

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.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

vasomotor, adj. causing constriction or dilatation of blood-vessels.