The name was coined by Alexander Vostokov and popularized by Vasily Zhukovsky in his eponymous ballad, first published in 1813. The name is also used in Ukraine, Belarus, Slovakia, and Serbia, with a number of occurrences in non-Slavic countries.
Define inotropic: increasing or decreasing the force of muscular contractions â inotropic in a sentence increasing or decreasing the force of muscular contractionsâ¦ See the full definition
Vasopressors can also be used with compounds known as inotropes. Inotropes are compounds that influence muscle contraction, with some causing muscles to contract, while others force muscles to relax. In medicine, those that stimulate contraction of the heart muscle are used to increase the force of cardiac contractions so that a patient's blood pressure will rise.