vasomotor : Idioms & Phrases


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.
Webster 1913