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Abnormally high blood pressure
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hypertension
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE pulmonary ▪ Decisions regarding appropriate organ transplantation may depend on whether pulmonary hypertension is primary or secondary to portal hypertension. ▪ Primary pulmonary hypertension is extremely rare, ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a common disorder in which blood pressure remains abnormally high (a reading of 140/90 mm Hg or greater) [syn: high blood pressure ] [ant: hypotension ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
hypertension \hypertension\ n. abnormally high blood pressure; especially, the chronic condition associated with persistent high blood pressure.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1863, from hyper- + tension . Originally in medical use; of emotions or nerves, from 1936.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Hypertension ( HTN or HT ), also known as high blood pressure ( HBP ), is a long term medical condition in which the blood pressure in the arteries is persistently elevated. High blood pressure usually does not cause symptoms. Long term high blood pressure, ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context pathology English) The disease or disorder of abnormally high blood pressure.
Usage examples of hypertension.
If you have a chronic medical condition, such as diabetes or hypertension, destination spas may provide assistance in how to manage your health with specialized diet and exercise.
In women, hypertension increases the risk of heart attack and cardiovascular disease by 25 percent, and more than half of all women over age forty-five have it, including millions of women who have undiagnosed hypertension.
It makes you wonder why doctors recommend drinking alcohol to reduce the risk of heart attack, when it increases the risk of hypertension, a major factor in cardiovascular disease!
The average blood pressure in the United States is 120 over 80 halfway between the Yanomami and hypertension, which is another word for high blood pressure and starts at 140 over 90.
The minority view -- there is always a minority view, and if I do not mention it, its scrofulous adherents are going to write me insulting letters -- holds that Herod succumbed to a combination of cirrhosis of the liver, hypertension, and diabetes.
They think everybody over fifty is going to die of hypertension or coronary thrombosis or one of those things—.
Its symptoms include unstable blood pressure and hypertension, unstable temperature, vomiting spasms, profuse sweating, impairment of vestibular function, a marked tendency to develop erythematous skin rashes, lacrimation deficit .
Then the same thing took place in malignant hypertension, in Parkinsonism and other failures of the central nervous system, in muscular dystrophy, and so on, and so on.
His tie was tight, his neck was suffering, and he looked like a poster boy for National Hypertension Week.
I was to rake up ten thousand in cash, treat his hypertension, and get the two of them a cottage at the Tennis Club.