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Vasomotor center

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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.

See also: Vasomotor



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