vasomotor

adjective

Relating to, causing, or regulating constriction or dilation of blood vessels.

Serving to regulate the tension of blood-vessels, as nerves; vasomotorial, whether vasoconstrictor or vasodilator. Compare inhibition.

Also vasculomotor

adjective

Causing movement in the walls of vessels

adjective

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.

adjective

Of or pertaining to the regulation of the diameter of blood vessels.

adjective

relating to the nerves and muscles that cause the blood vessels to constrict or dilate